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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Detroit, MI

May 23, 2004Livingston County, Michigan

NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2004, 5:35 PM EDT for Livingston County, Michigan. It was in force for 55 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 23, 2004, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 55 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), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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 23, 4:50 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 44 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: 123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -175 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

203 
WFUS53 KDTX 232135
TORDTX
MIC093-232230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI
535 PM EDT SUN MAY 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 534 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  FOWLERVILLE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOWELL...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FOWLERVILLE AROUND 540 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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN.

LAT...LON 4277 8415 4259 8414 4271 8369 4279 8370

$$

BT / WAG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Shiawassee	94 min
May 23, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Lenawee	72 min
May 23, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Genesee	80 min
May 23, 5:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	DTX	Shiawassee	53 min
May 23, 5:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	DTX	Genesee	60 min
May 23, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	DTX		60 min
May 23, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Wayne	57 min
May 23, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Monroe	39 min
May 23, 6:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	DTX	Lapeer	78 min
May 23, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Sanilac	85 min
May 23, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	DTX		2 hr
May 23, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Tuscola	60 min
May 23, 6:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	DTX	Sanilac	68 min
May 23, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Macomb	58 min
May 23, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Oakland, Wayne	80 min
May 23, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Saint Clair	62 min
May 23, 7:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	DTX		57 min
May 23, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Shiawassee	62 min
May 23, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	DTX		61 min
May 23, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Genesee	74 min
May 23, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Macomb	22 min
May 23, 7:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Lapeer	80 min
May 23, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Saint Clair	93 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.