Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at May 14, 2004, 5:17 PM EDT for Genesee County, Michigan. It was in force for 58 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 14, 2004, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2004, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 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), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 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 14, 1:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 663 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
103 WFUS53 KDTX 142117 TORDTX MIC049-142215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 517 PM EDT FRI MAY 14 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GENESEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 515 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR FLUSHING... OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF FLINT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... FLINT AROUND 525 PM EDT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF DAVISON AROUND 535 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. LAT...LON 4308 8390 4289 8390 4299 8350 4321 8352 $$ SF / DRC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saginaw | 58 min |
| May 14, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Shiawassee | 62 min |
| May 14, 5:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Lapeer | 63 min |
| May 14, 5:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Saint Clair | 61 min |
| May 14, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 88 min | |
| May 14, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 87 min | |
| May 14, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 87 min | |
| May 14, 6:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Sanilac | 62 min |
| May 14, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Macomb | 67 min |
| May 14, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saint Clair | 59 min |
| May 14, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 90 min | |
| May 14, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 90 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.