Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1996, 1:40 AM EDT for Saint Clair County, Michigan. It was in force for 65 min. 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 22, 1996, 1:40 AM EDT (05:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1996, 2:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Clair County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 471 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDTX 220543 TORDTX MIC147-220645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT PONTIAC MI 140 AM EDT SAT JUN 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN ...ST. CLAIR COUNTY THIS WARNING ALSO INCLUDES THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF THE COUNTY JUST MENTIONED. AT 138 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER NORTHWEST ST. CLAIR COUNTY...NEAR CAPAC. THE SEVERE STORM AND POSSIBLE TORNADO WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THEY WILL REACH RILEY CENTER BETWEEN 145 AND 2 AM...AND SMITHS CREEK BY 220 AM. IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITpH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS. DJF
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 22, 1:39 AM EDT, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MICHIGAN
137 AM EDT SAT JUN 22 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION...d.
133 AM KIMBALL TOWNSHIP MI 3/4 INCH HAIL REPORTED
06/22/96 ST. CLAIR AMATUER RADIO SPOTTER
RBPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 9:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | DTX | Midland | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 10:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Midland | 40 min |
| Jun 21, 10:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | DTX | Bay, Saginaw | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 10:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Midland, Saginaw | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 11:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Genesee | 61 min |
| Jun 21, 11:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | DTX | Tuscola | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 11:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Lapeer | 56 min |
| Jun 21, 11:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Saginaw, Tuscola | 30 min |
| Jun 22, 12:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Bay, Tuscola | 68 min |
| Jun 22, 12:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Tuscola | 57 min |
| Jun 22, 12:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | DTX | Lapeer | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 12:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Lapeer | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 12:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Saint Clair | 59 min |
| Jun 22, 1:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | DTX | Saint Clair, Sanilac | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 1:02 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Lapeer | 43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.