Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 1995, 8:50 PM EDT for Ogemaw County, Michigan. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 1995, 8:50 PM EDT (00:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 1995, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ogemaw County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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, Apr 18, 6:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 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
Special weather statement, Apr 18, 8:02 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
MIZ043>083-190300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 755 PM EDT TUE APR 18 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 215 ISSUED FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 1 AM... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 215 HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 1 AM FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 1 AM. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE COMMUNITIES OF HOUGHTON LAKE... SAGINAW... AND FLINT. 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 TELEVISI ON STATION... FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. CAMPBELL
Local storm report, Apr 18, 8:20 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PONTIAC/DETROIT MI 820 PM EDT TUE APR 19 1995 TIME (EDT) ...LOCATION............ STATE.... EVENT/REMARKS............ DATE ...COUNTY.............. 1915 WESTLAND MI 0.75 HAIL 04/19/95 WAYNE 1956 3 N UTICA MI 0.75 HAIL 04/19/95 MACOMB CAMPBELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Crawford | 28 min |
| Apr 18, 9:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Crawford | 27 min |
| Apr 18, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Ogemaw | 22 min |
| Apr 18, 11:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Genesee, Lapeer | 30 min |
| Apr 18, 11:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Sanilac | 37 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.