Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 1995, 7:21 PM EDT for Wayne County, Michigan. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 1995, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 1995, 7:47 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 1397 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 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 182323 SVRDTX MIC125-163-190015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT PONTIAC MI 721 PM EDT TUE APR 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ...SOUTHEASTERN OAKLAND COUNTY...NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY AT 719 PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LIVONIA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNTIES OF SOUTHFIELD AND ROYAL OAK BETWEEN 730 PM AND 745 PM. REPORTS OF 1/2 TO 3/4 INCH HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO TIN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. &
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, Apr 18, 6:40 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
MIZ043>083-190000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 640 PM EDT TUE APR 18 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 214 ISSUED FOR MUCH OF SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 1 AM... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 214 HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 1 AM FOR A GOOD PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. COMMUNITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE GRAND RAPIDS... JACKSON... LANSING... AND DETROIT. AT 635 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE DETROIT AREA. ONE STRONG STORM JUST NORTH OF DOWNTOWN DETROIT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST INTO LAKE ST. CLAIR. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN THE WATCH AREA THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL... AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. STAY TUNED TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION... FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. CAMPBELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saint Clair | 32 min |
| Apr 18, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Oakland | 54 min |
| Apr 18, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Macomb | 49 min |
| Apr 18, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Gladwin | 28 min |
| Apr 18, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Roscommon | 38 min |
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.