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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Detroit, MI

May 22, 2004Genesee County, Michigan

NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2004, 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: May 22, 2004, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2004, 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), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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 22, 2:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 36 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: 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

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The text

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

356 
WFUS53 KDTX 222053
TORDTX
MIC049-222200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI
453 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS EXTENDED THE

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

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 453 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF FLUSHING...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF OWOSSO...MOVING
  EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  6 MILES SOUTH OF FLINT AROUND 510 PM EDT
  GRAND BLANC AROUND 515 PM EDT
  7 MILES SOUTH OF DAVISON AROUND 525 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 4304 8394 4280 8393 4280 8373 4288 8369
          4289 8349 4304 8347 4308 8348 4307 8388

$$

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, 4:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	DTX	Sanilac	60 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, 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

Nearby

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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.