Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 2000, 6:27 PM EDT for Saint Clair County, Michigan. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 2000, 6:27 PM EDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Clair County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 343 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 705 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
322 WFUS53 KDTX 282228 TORDTX MIC147-282315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 627 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ST. CLAIR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 624 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER BROCKWAY...OR 19 MILES WEST OF PORT HURON...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... YALE AT 640 PM EDT LYNN TOWNSHIP AT 710 PM EDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. BGM DWD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lapeer | 44 min |
| Jul 27, 9:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lapeer | 38 min |
| Jul 27, 10:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Tuscola | 38 min |
| Jul 27, 10:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Genesee | 49 min |
| Jul 28, 5:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lapeer | 38 min |
| Jul 28, 6:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Genesee | 38 min |
| Jul 28, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Shiawassee | 53 min |
| Jul 28, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Washtenaw | 60 min |
| Jul 28, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lenawee | 43 min |
| Jul 28, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Washtenaw | 45 min |
| Jul 28, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Wayne | 38 min |
| Jul 28, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Oakland | 50 min |
| Jul 28, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saint Clair, Sanilac | 41 min |
| Jul 28, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Wayne | 48 min |
| Jul 28, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Sanilac | 45 min |
| Jul 28, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Oakland | 42 min |
| Jul 28, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Macomb | 66 min |
| Jul 28, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lapeer | 44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.