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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Detroit, MI

June 9, 1999Lapeer County, Michigan

NWS Detroit, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1999, 7:03 PM EDT for Lapeer County, Michigan. It was in force for 57 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 9, 1999, 7:03 PM EDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1999, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Detroit, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Lapeer County, MI

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 9, 7:35 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 55Lapeer, 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, 11.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1999-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1999-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1773 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDTX 092305
SVRDTX

MIC087-100000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI
703 PM EDT WED JUN 9 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAPEER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN LOWER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 702 PM EDT...  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAPEER OR 9 MILES WEST
  OF METAMORA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HADLEY                        BY 715 PM EDT
  METAMORA                      BY 725 PM EDT
  LAPEER                        BY 735 PM EDT


THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 70 MPH. A WIND GUST
TO 70 MPH HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PUSH OVER SHALLOW ROOTED TREES AND TO
DAMAGE CHIMNEYS AND TV ANTENNAS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES UNLESS IN AN
EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.


STRUBLE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTXLivingston60 min
Jun 9, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTXGenesee59 min
Jun 9, 6:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTXGenesee41 min
Jun 9, 7:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTXLapeer34 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.