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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2005, 1:35 PM EDT for Oakland County, Wayne County, Michigan. It was in force for 70 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2005, 1:35 PM EDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2005, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 70 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Oakland County, MI, Wayne County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:37 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 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1104 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Detroit, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 8, 1:15 PM EDT, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 1:15 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 9:05 AM EDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 905 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2005 MIZ047>049-053>055-060>063-068>070-075-076-082-083-090900- MIDLAND-BAY-HURON-SAGINAW-TUSCOLA-SANILAC-SHIAWASSEE-GENESEE- LAPEER-ST. CLAIR-LIVINGSTON-OAKLAND-MACOMB-WASHTENAW-WAYNE- LENAWEE-MONROE- 905 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE ANTICIPATED...PRODUCING HAIL AROUND INCH IN DIAMETER. OTHERWISE...THE MAJORITY OF STORMS WILL BE NON-SEVERE...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THUNDERSTORMS MOVEMENT WILL BE LIGHT AND VARIABLE. DUE TO THIS SLOW STORM MOTION... LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES WILL PROVIDE THE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. THIS SYSTEM WILL MOVE EAST OF THE AREA TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY IS DUE TO THE POTENTIAL FOR THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE DENNIS TO TRACK INTO THE SOUTHERN GREAT LAKES. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY WILL RESULT FROM AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM DROPPING INTO THE REGION FROM THE NORTHWEST. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY. LCZ422-423-460-LEZ444-LHZ421-422-441>443-462>464-090900- ST. CLAIR RIVER-DETROIT RIVER-LAKE ST. CLAIR- MICHIGAN WATERS OF LAKE ERIE-OUTER SAGINAW BAY-INNER SAGINAW BAY- PORT AUSTIN TO HARBOR BEACH MI-HARBOR BEACH TO PORT SANILAC MI- PORT SANILAC TO PORT HURON MI- LAKE HURON OFFSHORE BEYOND 5 NM FROM PORT AUSTIN TO HARBOR BEACH MI- LAKE HURON OFFSHORE BEYOND 5 NM FROM HARBOR BEACH TO PORT SANILAC MI- LAKE HURON OFFSHORE BEYOND 5 NM FROM PORT SANILAC TO PORT HURON MI- 905 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE HURON...LAKE ST CLAIR AND THE MICHIGAN WATERS OF LAKE ERIE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 40 KNOTS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THUNDERSTORMS MOTION WILL BE LIGHT AND VARIABLE. DUE TO THIS SLOW STORM MOTION... LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES WILL PROVIDE THE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. THIS SYSTEM WILL MOVE EAST OF THE AREA TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY IS DUE TO THE POTENTIAL FOR THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE DENNIS TO TRACK INTO THE SOUTHERN GREAT LAKES. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY WILL RESULT FROM AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM DROPPING INTO THE REGION FROM THE NORTHWEST. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. CONSIDINE/SF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 97 min | |
| Jul 8, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Washtenaw | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lenawee | 73 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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.