Severe Weather on Tuesday, May 31, 2011? An Update

As you saw previously, in the weather category, I was live blogging the thunderstorms as they came through the region May22nd. Well, we have a better chance a severe weather on June 1st (tomorrow). I won’t be able to live blog it, since I will be working while it is occuring. So keep up with the weather at weather.gov/gaylord.

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I added the snapshot of our sounding this evening from the office. Did you see the SFC and ML LI? -8c and -6c respectively. If this air mass remains in place over the region for tomorrow, things are just going to go vertical.

 

 

Severe Weather on Tuesday, May 31, 2011?

As you saw previously, in the weather category, I was live blogging the thunderstorms as they came through the region May22nd. Well, we have a better chance a severe weather on June 1st (tomorrow). I won’t be able to live blog it, since I will be working while it is occuring. So keep up with the weather at weather.gov/gaylord.

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Warnings are cleared for our area.

We took a power bump and knocked the computer off the net. Just got everything back up. Just a minor wind and some rain for us. 

There is a warning for our area now.

Statement as of 9:52 PM EDT on May 22, 2011

Severe Thunderstorm Warning

The National Weather Service in Gaylord has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for… 
Antrim County in northern lower Michigan… 
Charlevoix County in northern lower Michigan… 
eastern Grand Traverse County in northern lower Michigan… 
northwestern Kalkaska County in northern lower Michigan… 

* until 1030 PM EDT

5/22/11…A Line of storms

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This line is about to hit Boyne Falls and Petoskey. No warnings out for it so probably small hail if anything and some gusty wind. Keep a watch out. 

Radar is a screen Capture from Weather Underground.

A Weather Watch? We’ll Have to Wait and See….5/22/11

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Looks like stuff is getting close, but… 

A SEVERE THREAT COULD EVOLVE ACROSS NWRN PORTIONS OF LOWER MI THIS EVENING. IT IS NOT CLEAR WHETHER A WW IS WARRANTED AT THIS TIME DUE TO POTENTIAL LIMITING FACTORS. HOWEVER..AREA WILL CONTINUE TO BE MONITORED...AND ANY WW ISSUANCE WILL ULTIMATELY DEPEND ON CONVECTIVE TRENDS.

 

Keep watching.

Radar Capture from 747 pm

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Thunderstorms are crossing Lake Michigan. Right now, things don’t look severe. Keep watching the thunderstorms as they get close. No watch on the horizon, looking at the SPC site. 

May 22nd, 2011, Severe Weather Possible

The Severe Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has given us slight risk of severe storms overnight. Check out this link to the NWS Gaylord, MI Web Story.

Check out the Facebook page for some of the links. I’ll be watching the stuff and probably update via my Posterous.com site. I’ll see if I can tag it for this site and watch my Facebook or Twitter feeds for the links to it.