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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Detroit, MI

August 1, 2003Lenawee County, Michigan

NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at Aug 1, 2003, 5:23 PM EDT for Lenawee County, Michigan. It was in force for 82 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 1, 2003, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2003, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 82 min
Issued by: NWS Detroit, MI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lenawee County, MI

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 1, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 114 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 212 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1092 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

943 
WFUS53 KDTX 012123
TORDTX
MIC091-012245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI
523 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LENAWEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 519 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF
  HUDSON...OR 16 MILES WEST OF ADRIAN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. 

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CLAYTON AT 535 PM EDT
  SENECA...ROME CENTER AT 540 PM EDT
  FAIRFIELD...ADRIAN AT 600 PM EDT
  OGDEN CENTER AT 615 PM EDT
  HOLLOWAY AT 620 PM EDT

SEEK SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING...ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR. GET TO A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE...AND AVOID WINDOWS.
PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS OR PILLOWS.

LAT...LON 4191 8443 4173 8443 4173 8377 4199 8379

$$

MANN WAG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 12:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Saginaw	68 min
Aug 1, 12:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Shiawassee	79 min
Aug 1, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Livingston	79 min
Aug 1, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Washtenaw	81 min
Aug 1, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Oakland	68 min
Aug 1, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	DTX		95 min
Aug 1, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	DTX		95 min
Aug 1, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Wayne	82 min
Aug 1, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	DTX		119 min
Aug 1, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Lapeer, Saint Clair	69 min
Aug 1, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Sanilac	63 min
Aug 1, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Macomb	44 min
Aug 1, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Saint Clair	61 min
Aug 1, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	DTX		60 min
Aug 1, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Lenawee	82 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.