Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 5:25 PM EDT for Saginaw County, Michigan. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1995, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1995, 6:11 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saginaw County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1218 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDTX 102125 SVRDTX MIC145-102215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT PONTIAC MI 525 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MICHIGAN ...SOUTHERN SAGINAW COUNTY AT 518 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWEST SAGINAW COUNTY JUST NORTH OF CHAPIN. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF CHESANING AND FERGUS BETWEEN 545 AND 600 PM. AS THIS STORM APPROACHES MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER AND DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE. MJN
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 10, 12:33 PM EDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
MIZ016>083-111200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 1235 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL STATEMENT FOR MICHIGAN... THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN. A LOW PRESSURE AREA OVER THE MID-MISSISSIPPI VALLEY WILL TRACK NORTHEAST TOWARD SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN THIS AFTERNOON. WARM UNSTABLE AIR WILL BE DRAWN NORTHWARD FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO TOWARD SOUTHERN MICHIGAN AHEAD OF THE STORM. THE COMBINATION OF THE WARM UNSTABLE AIR AND LOW PRESSURE WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN WILL BECOME STRONG THIS AFTERNOON...WITH SMALL HAIL...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH. THE CHANCE FOR THOSE TYPE OF STORMS WILL EXIST ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MUSKEGON TO SAGINAW. THE STORMS WILL BE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. OVER THE FAR SOUTH...FROM THE MICHIANA AREA EAST TO DETROIT...A FEW ISOLATED STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AFTER 2 PM. THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THOSE STORMS WOULD BE 3/4 INCH DIAMETER HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEATHER RADIO FOR TdHE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHERN MICHIGAN THIS AFTERNOON. MSE
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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.