Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2004, 4:30 PM EDT for Sanilac County, Michigan. It was in force for 60 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2004, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2004, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sanilac County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 5:10 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | 3 Nne Deckerville, MI | PENNY HAIL REPORTED JUST BEFORE BARNS WERE DESTROYED. |
| May 22, 5:10 PM EDT | TORNADO | 3 Nne Deckerville, MI | TORNADO REPORTEDLY BLEW APART 2 BARNS. ONE AT BURGESS AND RICHMONDVILLE ROADS AND ONE AT HUNT AND RICHMONDVILLE ROADS. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 955 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
972 WFUS53 KDTX 222030 TORDTX MIC151-222130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 429 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SANILAC COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 428 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 22 MILES NORTH OF MARLETTE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF CARO...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 9 MILES NORTH OF DECKERVILLE AROUND 505 PM EDT FORESTVILLE AROUND 520 PM EDT TWO OTHER STORMS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN TUSCOLA COUNTY ARE ALSO CAPABLE OF A TORNADO. PEOPLE IN THE PROJECTED PATH OF THE TORNADO SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. MOVE INSIDE A BASEMENT...OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. LAT...LON 4366 8310 4331 8309 4332 8257 4367 8262 $$ SC / BT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 9:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | DTX | Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, Washtenaw and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 10:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Livingston | 55 min |
| May 21, 10:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Washtenaw | 64 min |
| May 21, 10:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Oakland | 64 min |
| May 22, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saginaw | 78 min |
| May 22, 3:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Saginaw | 55 min |
| May 22, 3:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Tuscola | 77 min |
| May 22, 4:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Genesee | 53 min |
| May 22, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 93 min | |
| May 22, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 93 min | |
| May 22, 4:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Shiawassee | 64 min |
| May 22, 4:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Lapeer | 58 min |
| May 22, 4:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Huron | 63 min |
| May 22, 4:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Genesee | 67 min |
| May 22, 5:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Lapeer | 64 min |
| May 22, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Sanilac | 60 min |
| May 22, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 88 min | |
| May 22, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 88 min | |
| May 22, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Oakland | 41 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.