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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Detroit, MI

June 18, 19965 counties in Michigan

NWS Detroit, MI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 1996, 1:07 AM EDT for 5 counties in Michigan. It was in force for 7 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, 1:07 AM EDT (05:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1996, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Detroit, MI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bay County, MI, Genesee County, MI, Saginaw County, MI, Shiawassee County, MI, Tuscola County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 74 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1996-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1996-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 251 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
415 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.0

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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 17, 8:01 PM EDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
MIZ077-071-078-079-072-080-073-180045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT PONTIAC MI
800 PM EDT MON JUN 17 1996

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 626 FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN HAS EXPIRED...

TORNADO WATCH NUMER 626... WHICH WAS EARLIER IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST
LOWER MICHIGAN... HAS EXPIRED. EVEN THOUGH THE THREAT OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS HAS DIMINISHED... PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. SOME STORMS COULD PRODUCE
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.

TO REPEAT... THE TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN
HAS EXPIRED.

DWD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 1:07 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningDTXLapeer7 hr
Jun 18, 7:55 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningDTXGenesee, Lapeer, Saginaw, Shiawassee, Tuscola2 hr
Jun 18, 7:55 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningDTXBay2 hr
Jun 18, 3:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningDTXOakland, Wayne3 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.