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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Detroit, MI

May 9, 1996Lenawee County, Michigan

NWS Detroit, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1996, 6:16 PM EDT for Lenawee County, Michigan. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 1996, 6:16 PM EDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1996, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Detroit, MI
Area: Whole counties

County Lenawee County, MI

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 9, 6:19 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Onsted, MI

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 275 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 341 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 950 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 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, May 9, 2:14 PM EDT, 4 hours 2 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, 3 hours 17 minutes 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.

ZELL

Local storm report, May 9, 3:05 PM EDT, 3 hours 11 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.

ZELL

Local storm report, May 9, 4:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 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.

ZELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Oakland	40 min
May 9, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Livingston, Washtenaw	58 min
May 9, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Oakland, Wayne	62 min
May 9, 3:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	DTX	Livingston, Oakland, Washtenaw	4 hr
May 9, 3:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	DTX	Wayne	4 hr
May 9, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Lenawee	55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.