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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Detroit, MI

August 9, 1998Macomb County, Michigan

NWS Detroit, MI issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 1998, 2:51 PM EDT for Macomb County, Michigan. It was in force for 3 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
Aug 9, 1998, 2:51 PM EDT (18:51 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 1998, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Detroit, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Macomb County, MI

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 43 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 12:00Z on 1998-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 450 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1998-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
450 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 6:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningDTXMacomb116 min
Aug 9, 7:14 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningDTXOakland106 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Michigan, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.