Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1994, 8:47 PM EDT for Oakland County, Michigan. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1994, 8:47 PM EDT (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1994, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oakland County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 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
- 330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDTW 260047
TORDTW
MIC125-260115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT MI
847 PM EDT WED MAY 25 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF LOWER MICHIGAN
OAKLAND
AT 845 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO FORMING
5 MILE EAST NORTHEAST OF HIGHLAND...35 MILES NORTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN
DETROIT. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR.
PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW. THIS IS A
DANGEROUS STORM.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IS IN
A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...FIND SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
YORKWhat 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, May 25, 7:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 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, 1 hour 22 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, 1 hour 19 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, 1 hour 18 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, 1 hour 11 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, 1 hour 11 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.
BBNNearby
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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.