Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2000, 6:08 PM EDT for Tuscola County, Michigan. It was in force for 37 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 12, 2000, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tuscola County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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 12, 6:16 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Unionville, 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 12, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1371 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDTX 122209 TORDTX MIC157-122245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 608 PM EDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TUSCOLA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 608 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF QUANICASSEE...OR 9 MILES EAST OF BAY CITY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... AKRON...BAY PARK...FAIRGROVE AT 620 PM EDT UNIONVILLE AT 625 PM EDT ELLINGTON AT 635 PM EDT CASS CITY...GAGETOWN AT 640 PM EDT PEOPLE IN THE PROJECTED PATH OF THE TORNADO SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. MOVE INSIDE A BASEMENT...OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. WAG JW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 4:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Shiawassee | 21 min |
| May 12, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Bay, Midland | 47 min |
| May 12, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Bay | 31 min |
| May 12, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Tuscola | 31 min |
| May 12, 6:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Huron | 59 min |
| May 12, 7:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Huron | 46 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.