Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2003, 4:53 PM EDT for Genesee County, Michigan. It was in force for 67 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, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Genesee County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 39 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.
000 WFUS53 KDTX 082053 TORDTX MIC049-082200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 453 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GENESEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 449 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LINDEN...OR 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOWELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LINDEN AT 515 PM EDT FENTON AT 520 PM EDT SWARTZ CREEK AT 525 PM EDT RANKIN AT 530 PM EDT FLUSHING AT 535 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 4279 8393 4279 8370 4307 8370 4307 8392 $$ 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, 4:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Livingston | 61 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, 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.