Alert archive / Michigan / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 1996, 3:50 PM EDT for Oakland County, Wayne County, Michigan. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1996, 3:50 PM EDT (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1996, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Oakland County, MI, Wayne County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 298 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
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 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 flash flood 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, Jun 18, 11:59 AM EDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 1:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | DTX | Bay, Genesee, Saginaw, Shiawassee, Tuscola | 7 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | DTX | Lapeer | 7 hr |
| Jun 18, 7:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | DTX | Genesee, Lapeer, Saginaw, Shiawassee, Tuscola | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 7:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | DTX | Bay | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Michigan, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.