Strong thunderstorms developed over western Lake Superior ahead of an approaching cold front on the evening of the 6th.
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The episode as NWS MQT wrote it up.
Strong thunderstorms developed over western Lake Superior ahead of an approaching cold front on the evening of the 6th.
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:01 UTC.
3 marine thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The buoy west of Portage Canal and the Portage Canal GLOS site measured peak wind gusts of 40 mph.
The measured peak gust was 44 mph at the Grand Traverse Bay GLOS.
The measured peak wind gust was 40 mph at the Copper Harbor ASOS.
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