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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2003, 7:53 PM EDT for Macomb County, Oakland County, Michigan. It was in force for 52 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
- May 5, 2003, 7:53 PM EDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2003, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Macomb County, MI, Oakland County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 496 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 401 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 052353 TORDTX MIC099-125-060045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 753 PM EDT MON MAY 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MACOMB COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN OAKLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN * UNTIL 845 PM EDT * AT 750 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER LEONARD... OR 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAPEER...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LEONARD...ROMEO AT 805 PM EDT ARMADA AT 820 PM EDT MEMPHIS...RICHMOND AT 830 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 4289 8329 4276 8326 4276 8274 4290 8275 $$ MANN JB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Shiawassee | 49 min |
| May 5, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Genesee | 39 min |
| May 5, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Washtenaw | 50 min |
| May 5, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Livingston | 40 min |
| May 5, 6:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Genesee, Oakland | 32 min |
| May 5, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lapeer | 51 min |
| May 5, 7:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Washtenaw | 48 min |
| May 5, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Wayne | 57 min |
| May 5, 7:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Wayne | 46 min |
| May 5, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Oakland | 43 min |
| May 5, 7:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 82 min | |
| May 5, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saint Clair | 63 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.