Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Detroit, MI

Issued

Jul 14, 2000, 3:54 PM EDT (19:54 UTC)

Expired

Jul 14, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT

In force

66 min

Issued by

NWS Detroit, MI

Area

Whole counties

County Lenawee County, MI

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

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WUUS53 KDTX 141955
SVRDTX
MIC091-142100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI
354 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LENAWEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 354 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF CLINTON...OR 13 MILES NORTH 
  OF ADRIAN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ADRIAN...TECUMSEH AT 405 PM EDT
  BRITTON AT 410 PM EDT
  BLISSFIELD...OGDEN CENTER AT 415 PM EDT
  DEERFIELD AT 420 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. WIND GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH ARE 
ALSO POSSIBLE.

WAG BT

NWS Detroit, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 14, 12:05 PM EDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI
1205 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000

CU SHOULD RAPIDLY FORM SOON AS CAP ABOUT READY TO DISAPPEAR.  MAIN
SURFACE CONVERGENCE LOOKS TO BE JUST TO THE EAST AND SOUTH OF THE
CWA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND THAT IS WERE THE MOST WIDESPREAD
CONVECTION WILL BE.  UPDATED ZONES TO ADJUST WINDS AND LOWER POPS.

DRC

In the hours before

MIZ047>049-053>055-060>063-068>070-075-076-082-083-150600-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI
135 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 578 IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT FOR ALL OF
SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN...

DISPATCHERS...PLEASE NOTIFY YOUR EMERGENCY MANAGERS IMMEDIATELY.

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ALONG AND
AHEAD OF A SURFACE COLD FRONT THAT WAS ACROSS THE SAGINAW VALLEY AND
THUMB AREA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AT
ABOUT 25 MPH AND WILL BEGIN AFFECTING THE NORTHERN DETROIT
METROPOLITAN AREA AFTER 2 PM AND THE REST OF THE DETROIT AREA AFTER
3PM...AND THE ADRIAN AND MONROE AREAS BY 4 PM.

HAIL TO AROUND ONE INCH IN DIAMETER IS LIKELY WITH THE SEVERE STORMS
ALONG WITH A FEW WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR PREFERRED LOCAL MEDIA
OUTLET... FOR FURTHER FORECAST UPDATES.

COSTELLO

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.