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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Detroit, MI

May 22, 2004Saginaw County, Michigan

NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2004, 3:50 PM EDT for Saginaw County, Michigan. It was in force for 55 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2004, 3:50 PM EDT (19:50 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2004, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Detroit, MI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Saginaw County, MI

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 22, 3:50 PM EDT	TORNADO	Ne Chesaning, MI	TREES AND WIRE DOWN
May 22, 3:58 PM EDT	TORNADO	3 Wsw Burt, MI	TORNADO REPORTED AT GARY AND BUECHE, WIRE AND TREES REPORTED DOWN

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 22, 2:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 75 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDTX 221950
TORDTX
MIC145-222045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI
350 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 348 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF CHESANING...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF SAGINAW...
  MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BIRCH RUN AROUND 410 PM EDT

PEOPLE IN THE PROJECTED PATH OF THE TORNADO SHOULD SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY. MOVE INSIDE A BASEMENT...OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR.

LAT...LON 4332 8416 4314 8412 4316 8396 4324 8393
          4325 8371 4338 8379

$$

SC / BT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 9:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	DTX	Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, Washtenaw and 1 more	6 hr
May 21, 10:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Livingston	55 min
May 21, 10:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Washtenaw	64 min
May 21, 10:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Oakland	64 min
May 22, 3:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Saginaw	78 min
May 22, 3:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	DTX	Tuscola	77 min
May 22, 4:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	DTX	Genesee	53 min
May 22, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	DTX		93 min
May 22, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	DTX		93 min
May 22, 4:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	DTX	Shiawassee	64 min
May 22, 4:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	DTX	Sanilac	60 min
May 22, 4:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	DTX	Lapeer	58 min
May 22, 4:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	DTX	Huron	63 min
May 22, 4:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	DTX	Genesee	67 min
May 22, 5:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	DTX	Lapeer	64 min
May 22, 5:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	DTX	Sanilac	60 min
May 22, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	DTX		88 min
May 22, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	DTX		88 min
May 22, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DTX	Oakland	41 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.