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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2004, 7:54 PM EDT for Lapeer County, Michigan. It was in force for 66 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
- Jun 13, 2004, 7:54 PM EDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2004, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lapeer County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 1:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 673 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
863 WFUS53 KDTX 132354 TORDTX MIC087-140100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 754 PM EDT SUN JUN 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LAPEER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 752 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF IMLAY CITY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAPEER... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ALMONT AROUND 800 PM EDT IMLAY CITY AROUND 805 PM EDT THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT. 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. LAT...LON 4321 8335 4292 8319 4292 8298 4330 8301 $$ RBP / JB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Midland | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 3:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Midland | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 3 hr | |
| Jun 13, 3:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Bay | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 4:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Huron | 79 min |
| Jun 13, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 116 min | |
| Jun 13, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Huron | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saginaw | 94 min |
| Jun 13, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 88 min | |
| Jun 13, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Shiawassee | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Bay | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Tuscola | 71 min |
| Jun 13, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Genesee | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lapeer | 71 min |
| Jun 13, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Huron, Sanilac | 68 min |
| Jun 13, 7:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 2 hr |
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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.