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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1996, 5:57 PM EDT for Genesee County, Michigan. It was in force for 33 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
- Jun 7, 1996, 5:57 PM EDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Genesee County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Flint, 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 493 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDTX 072201 TORDTX MIC049-072230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT PONTIAC MI 557 PM EDT FRI JUN 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN ...SOUTHERN GENESEE COUNTY AT 557 PM AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR GRAND BLANC. THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH ATLAS AT 615 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. DPG &
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
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 12:30 PM EDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before
MIZ001>083-081200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 1230 PM EDT FRI JUN 7 1996 ...SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL STATEMENT FOR MICHIGAN... NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED IN MICHIGAN TODAY OR TONIGHT. DISPATCHERS...PLEASE NOTIFY YOUR EMERGENCY MANAGER. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OVER SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING OVER SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN. NONE OF THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...LIGHTNING... GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH: THESE STORMS. WH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 3:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Shiawassee | 47 min |
| Jun 7, 4:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Genesee | 49 min |
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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.