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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2004, 5:37 PM EDT for Shiawassee County, Michigan. It was in force for 53 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, 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Shiawassee County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 60 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 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 62 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
446 WFUS53 KDTX 232137 TORDTX MIC155-232230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 537 PM EDT SUN MAY 23 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SHIAWASSEE 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 6 MILES SOUTH OF PERRY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOWELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DURAND AROUND 605 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 4278 8435 4279 8393 4313 8394 4314 8412 $$ 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, 5:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Livingston | 55 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 |
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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.