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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2004, 8:15 PM EDT for Saint Clair County, Sanilac County, Michigan. It was in force for 60 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, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2004, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Saint Clair County, MI, Sanilac County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 1133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
294
WFUS53 KDTX 140015
TORDTX
MIC147-151-140115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI
814 PM EDT SUN JUN 13 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SANILAC COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN
ST. CLAIR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN
* UNTIL 915 PM EDT
* AT 811 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR YALE...OR
ABOUT 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF PORT HURON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH.
* THE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
CROSWELL AROUND 830 PM EDT
LEXINGTON AROUND 835 PM EDT
THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
SANILAC COUNTY.
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 4337 8293 4305 8285 4329 8200 4357 8217
4352 8254
$$
RBP / JBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:13 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 92 min | |
| Jun 14, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Livingston | 84 min |
| Jun 14, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Shiawassee | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lenawee | 71 min |
| Jun 14, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Genesee | 66 min |
| Jun 14, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Washtenaw | 78 min |
| Jun 14, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Oakland | 85 min |
| Jun 14, 3:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 118 min | |
| Jun 14, 3:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 118 min | |
| Jun 14, 3:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 114 min | |
| Jun 14, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Monroe | 54 min |
| Jun 14, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Wayne | 58 min |
| Jun 14, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Macomb | 70 min |
| Jun 14, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saint Clair | 75 min |
| Jun 14, 7:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 44 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.