Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2003, 4:14 PM EDT for Livingston County, Michigan. It was in force for 61 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
- Jun 8, 2003, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Livingston County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1139 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
783 WFUS53 KDTX 082014 TORDTX MIC093-082115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 414 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 410 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PARKERS CORNERS...OR 18 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PARKERS CORNERS AT 435 PM EDT FOWLERVILLE AT 450 PM EDT HOWELL AT 500 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. LAT...LON 4254 8447 4245 8411 4261 8370 4276 8400 $$ BT DRC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Midland, Saginaw | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Bay | 77 min |
| Jun 8, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 119 min | |
| Jun 8, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Shiawassee | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 4:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Genesee | 67 min |
| Jun 8, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saginaw | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saginaw | 16 min |
| Jun 8, 5:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Lapeer | 68 min |
| Jun 8, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Livingston, Shiawassee | 72 min |
| Jun 8, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Genesee | 48 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.