Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1994, 7:53 PM EDT for Oakland County, Michigan. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1994, 7:53 PM EDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1994, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oakland County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 8 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 834 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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
Special weather statement, May 25, 7:24 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
MIZ061-260120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLINT MI 724 PM EDT WED MAY 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO GENESEE COUTNY... AT 720 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH...IT WILL PASS LINDEN 26 MILES SOUTH OF FLINT BY 730 PM. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED PEA SIZE HAIL NEAR ARGENTINE 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FLINT...AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR FLINT AND I 69 NEAR BANCROFT AND GRAND ROAD. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY...DO NOT USE TELEPHONE OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED THIES
Special weather statement, May 25, 7:25 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
MIZ061-260120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLINT MI 724 PM EDT WED MAY 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO GENESEE COUTNY... AT 720 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH...IT WILL PASS LINDEN 26 MILES SOUTH OF FLINT BY 730 PM. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED PEA SIZE HAIL NEAR ARGENTINE 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FLINT...AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR FLINT AND I 69 NEAR BANCROFT AND GRAND ROAD. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY...DO NOT USE TELEPHONE OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED THIES
Special weather statement, May 25, 7:28 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
MIZ061-260120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...COR TYP0 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLINT MI 728 PM EDT WED MAY 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO GENESEE COUNTY... AT 720 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH...IT WILL PASS LINDEN 26 MILES SOUTH OF FLINT BY 730 PM. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED PEA SIZE HAIL NEAR ARGENTINE 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FLINT...AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR FLINT AND I 69 NEAR BANCROFT AND GRAND ROAD. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY...DO NOT USE TELEPHONE OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED THIES
Special weather statement, May 25, 7:29 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
MIZ061-260120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...COR TYP0 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLINT MI 728 PM EDT WED MAY 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO GENESEE COUNTY... AT 720 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH...IT WILL PASS LINDEN 26 MILES SOUTH OF FLINT BY 730 PM. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED PEA SIZE HAIL NEAR ARGENTINE 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FLINT...AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR FLINT AND I 69 NEAR BANCROFT AND GRAND ROAD. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY...DO NOT USE TELEPHONE OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED THIES
Local storm report, May 25, 7:36 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT, MI
636 PM EST WED MAY 25 1994
EVENTS FROM 430 PM TO 436 PM EDT THIS DATE
TIME LOCATION AND EVENT
(EDT)
430-436 PM WAYNE COUNTY...CITY OF PLYMOUTH...23 MILES WEST OF DOWNTOWN
DETROIT. STATE POLICE REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL. ALSO A
REPORT OF ONE INCH SIZE HAIL IN PLYMOUTH FROM THE POLICE.
BBNLocal storm report, May 25, 7:36 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT, MI
636 PM EST WED MAY 25 1994
EVENTS FROM 430 PM TO 436 PM EDT THIS DATE
TIME LOCATION AND EVENT
(EDT)
430-436 PM WAYNE COUNTY...CITY OF PLYMOUTH...23 MILES WEST OF DOWNTOWN
DETROIT. STATE POLICE REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL. ALSO A
REPORT OF ONE INCH SIZE HAIL IN PLYMOUTH FROM THE POLICE.
BBNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Wayne | 52 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.