Alert archive / Michigan / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 1996, 1:07 AM EDT for Lapeer County, 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
County Lapeer County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDTX 180513 COR FFWDTX MIC017-049-087-145-155-157-181200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT PONTIAC MI 107 AM EDT TUE JUN 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN ...BAY COUNTY...GENESEE COUNTY...LAPEER COUNTY...SAGINAW COUNTY ...SHIAWASSEE COUNTY...TUSCOLA COUNTY AT 1255 AM EDT...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE INTO THE MICHIGAN THUMB. ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THE AREA THROUGH THIS EVENING. AT 1245 AM EDT...A FEW INCHES OF WATER WAS REPORTED OVER ROADS NEAR BRIDGEPORT IN SAGINAW COUNTY. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. WH &
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 1:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | DTX | Bay, Genesee, Saginaw, Shiawassee, Tuscola | 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 |
| Jun 18, 3:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | DTX | Oakland, Wayne | 3 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.