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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this flash flood warning at May 9, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT for Monroe County, Washtenaw County, Wayne County, Michigan. It was in force for 2 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
- May 9, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1996, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Monroe County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 610 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDTX 100002 FFWDTX MIC115-161-163-100200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT PONTIAC MI 800 PM EDT THU MAY 9 1996 ...FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAMS IS IN EFFECT FOR MONROE... WASHTENAW...AND WAYNE COUNTIES UNTIL 10 PM... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 10 PM FOR MONROE COUNTY. THIS INCLUDES THE COMMUNITY OF MONROE. IN ADDITION...THE FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAMS HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 10 PM FOR WASHTENAW AND WAYNE COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE COMMUNITIES OF ANN ARBOR AND DETROIT. AT 755 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...ACROSS WAYNE...MONROE ...AND WASHTENAW COUNTIES. SINCE 7 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT UP TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS OCCURRED IN A NARROW BAND FROM ADRIAN...ACROSS YPSILANTI...TO THE WEST SIDE OF THE CITY OF DETROIT. THIS RAIN FELL OVER AREAS THAT HAD RECEIVED SOME TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS DURING THE AFTERNOON. REPORTS FROM THE PUBLIC INDICATED CONSIDERABLE WATER OVER PARTS OF I-94 THROUGH WAYNE COUNTY...WITH SOME UNDERPASSES FILLED WITH WATER. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER WAYNE...WASHTENAW...AND MONROE COUNTIES...WITH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS AT TIMES RESULTING IN VISIBILITIES TO NEAR ZERO. BE SURE NOT TO DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. SINCE THE HEAVIER RAINFALL WAS CONCENTRATED SOUTH OF OAKLAND AND LIVINGSTON COUNTIES AT 755 PM...THE FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAMS FOR THOSE COUNTIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. THIS INCLUDES THE COMMUNITIES OF HOWELL AND PONTIAC. HOWEVER...RAIN AND AN OCCASIONAL THUNDERSTORM MAY STILL RESULT IN ENOUGH RAIN TO PROVIDE FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS. DJF
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, May 9, 2:14 PM EDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
MIZ042>083-100500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 210 PAM EDT WED MAY 9 1996 ...SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL STATEMENT FOR SOUTH HALF OF LOWER MICHIGAN... THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON SOUTH A LINE FROM MUSKEGON TO BAY CITY. AT 204 PM DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED ON M-59 ON THE OAKLAND...LIVINGSTON COUNTY LINE. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH AND MAY CONTAINj SMALL HAIL AND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION SHOULD THERE BE A CHANGE IN THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IN THE SOUTH HALF OF LOWER MICHIGAN. DLK
Local storm report, May 9, 2:59 PM EDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PONTIAC/DETROIT MI
259 PM EDT THU MAY 9 1996
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS............
....COUNTY LOCATION....
200 PM HIGHLAND MI .75 INCH HAIL
5/9/96 OAKLAND REPORTED BY OAKLAND CO.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
210 PM WEST BLOOMFIELD. MI .75 INCH HAIL
5/9/96 OAKLAND REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
ZELLLocal storm report, May 9, 3:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED LOCATION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PONTIAC/DETROIT MI
305 PM EDT THU MAY 9 1996
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS............
....COUNTY LOCATION....
200 PM HIGHLAND MI .75 INCH HAIL
5/9/96 OAKLAND REPORTED BY OAKLAND CO.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
210 PM HIGHLAND MI .75 INCH HAIL
5/9/96 OAKLAND REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
ZELLLocal storm report, May 9, 4:56 PM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PONTIAC/DETROIT MI
455 PM EDT THU MAY 9 1996
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS............
....COUNTY LOCATION....
350 PM PLYMOUTH MI .75 INCH HAIL
5/9/96 WAYNE REPORTED BY WAYNE CO
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
430 PM SOUTHGATE MI .75 INCH HAIL
5/9/96 WAYNE REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
435 PM RIVER ROUGE MI .75 INCH HAIL
5/9/96 WAYNE REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
ZELLSpecial weather statement, May 9, 7:27 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
MIZ082-100600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 725 PM EDT THU MAY 9 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 332 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THREE COUNTIES IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 200 AM... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 332 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MONROE...LENAWEE ...AND HILLSDALE COUNTIES IN EXTREME SOUTHEST LOWER MICHIGAN. THIS WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM. AT 725 PM... RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN FROM NEAR DETROIT TO MILAN TO WEST OF ADRIAN TO NORTHERN INDIANA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT EXTREME SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE~ EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL IN SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN.
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.