Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2000, 3:41 PM EDT for Livingston County, Michigan. It was in force for 49 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 18, 2000, 3:41 PM EDT (19:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2000, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Livingston County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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 18, 3:55 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Hartland, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 707 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
184 WUUS53 KDTX 181941 SVRDTX MIC093-182030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 341 PM EDT THU MAY 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN * UNTIL 430 PM EDT * AT 341 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF FOWLERVILLE...OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOWELL...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HARTLAND...TYRONE TOWNSHIP AT 355 PM EDT THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. HAIL OF THIS SIZE MAY DAMAGE WINDOWS...ALUMINUM SIDING...OR VEHICLES...IF ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WIND GUSTS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DWD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 10:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Oakland | 20 min |
| May 18, 10:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Macomb | 24 min |
| May 18, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Genesee | 14 min |
| May 18, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Oakland | 48 min |
| May 18, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Livingston | 15 min |
| May 18, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Macomb | 45 min |
| May 18, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Monroe | 53 min |
| May 18, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Oakland | 45 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.