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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1986, 5:52 PM EDT for Genesee County, Michigan. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1986, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1986, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Genesee County, MI
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 40 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1371 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFNT 222152 TORFNT MIC049-222230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLINT MI 552 PM EDT SUN JUN 22 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF EAST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN...EASTERN GENESEE AT 555 PM A REPORT WAS RECEIVED OF AN UNCONFIRMED FUNNEL CLOUD ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISHOP AIRPORT, IN GENESEE COUNTY. NO OTHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO..GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. DO NOT STAY IN A CAR OR MOBILE HOME..FIND A REINFORCED SHELTER OR LIE FLAT IN A DITCH OR RAVINE. DICKS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 4:59 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE FLINT MI 455 PM SUN JUN 22 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS BEGIN IN EAST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN... .CURRENTLY WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A LINE OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WHICH HAS JUST RECENTLY DEVELOPED OVER PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN. THE STORMS EXTEND FROM THE TIP OF THE THUMB SOUTHWESTWARD THROUGH THE LANSING AND JACKSON AREAS THEN TO THE INDIANA BORDER. .OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM JUST SOUTHEAST OF HILLSDALE MICHIGAN SOUTH TO WEST OF DEFIANCE OHIO. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. .SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. REMEMBER THAT THUNDERSTORMS CAN BECOME SEVERE AND OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADIC ACTIVITY. .NO WATCHES OR WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT AT THIS TIME IN MICHIGAN.. PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR THE LATEiST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS THUNDERSTORM OUTBREAK. DICKS
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 5:16 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE FLINT MI
525 PM SUN JUN 22 1986
...THUNDERSTORMS IN EAST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN...
.CURRENTLY WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A LINE OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY
WHICH IS NOW MOVING INTO THE GENESEE COUNTY AREA. THESE STORMS
HAVE ALREADY PRODUCED HEAVY RAINS IN LANSING AS THEY MOVE EASTWARD
AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
.DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, STRONG WINDS AND AN OCCASIONAL TORNADO CAN
BE PRODUCED BY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AT ANY TIME..WITH LITTLE OR
NO WARNING SO PLEASE KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THE WEATHER.
.NO WATCHES OR WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT AT THIS TIME BUT MAY BE
ISSUED LATER AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO..OR LOCAL COMM}ERCIAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR THE LATEST
INFORMATION CONCERNING THE THUNDERSTORM OUTBREAK.Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.