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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1992, 6:24 PM EDT for Tuscola County, Michigan. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1992, 6:24 PM EDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1992, 7:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tuscola County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 3350 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
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MIZ026-031>034-036>038-042-102330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLINT MI 615 PM EDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 10 PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR MOST OF THE COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN...INCLUDING BAY...SAGINAW... TUSCOLA...HURON...SANILAC...SHIAWASSEE...GENESEE...LAPEER. AT 610 PM... RADAR INDICATED A NEWLY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORM NEAR MONTROSE IN NORTHWEST GENESEE COUNTY. MONTROSE IS 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF FLINT. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL REACH MOUNT MORRIS IN NORTH GENESEE COUNTY AROUND 630 PM. MOUNT MORRIS IS 6 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF FLINT. REMEMBER...IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...MOVE INSIDE AWAY FROM DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. AVOID USING TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS ^CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THESE STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL...HIGH WINDS IN EXCESS OF 57 MPH... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. POLLMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Ogemaw | 46 min |
| Aug 10, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Huron | 43 min |
| Aug 10, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Huron | 28 min |
| Aug 10, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Huron | 55 min |
| Aug 10, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Sanilac | 66 min |
| Aug 10, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saint Clair | 45 min |
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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.