Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2005, 7:39 PM EDT for Tuscola County, Michigan. It was in force for 38 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 5, 2005, 7:39 PM EDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2005, 8:17 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Tuscola County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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 5, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1129 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDTX 052339 TORDTX MIC157-060045- /O.NEW.KDTX.TO.W.0008.050605T2339Z-050606T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 739 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TUSCOLA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN * UNTIL 845 PM EDT * AT 734 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF CARO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CASS CITY AROUND 805 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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. LAT...LON 4333 8340 4334 8312 4367 8312 4364 8344 $$ SF / MANN
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDTX 052350 SVSDTX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 750 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 MIC157-060045- /O.CON.KDTX.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-050606T0045Z/ TUSCOLA MI- 750 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR TUSCOLA COUNTY... AT 747 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO LOCATED NEAR DEFORD...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF CARO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CASS CITY BY 755 PM EDT THIS STORM IS ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS OVER 65 MPH AND HAIL GREATER THAN ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. LAT...LON 4333 8340 4334 8312 4367 8312 4364 8344 $$ MANN
000 WWUS53 KDTX 060017 SVSDTX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 817 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 MIC157-060027- /O.CAN.KDTX.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-050606T0045Z/ TUSCOLA MI- 817 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR TUSCOLA COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS EXITED THE COUNTY. THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE STILL POSSIBLE FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. LAT...LON 4333 8340 4334 8312 4367 8312 4364 8344 $$ MANN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 2 hr | |
| Jun 5, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Bay | 41 min |
| Jun 5, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Midland, Saginaw | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Tuscola | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Huron | 73 min |
| Jun 5, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Bay | 19 min |
| Jun 5, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Midland | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 3:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Saginaw | 70 min |
| Jun 5, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Tuscola | 79 min |
| Jun 5, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lapeer | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 4:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Bay | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 94 min | |
| Jun 5, 4:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Huron | 79 min |
| Jun 5, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 90 min | |
| Jun 5, 4:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Tuscola | 41 min |
| Jun 5, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Sanilac | 78 min |
| Jun 5, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saint Clair | 23 min |
| Jun 5, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 85 min | |
| Jun 5, 5:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 83 min | |
| Jun 5, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saginaw, Shiawassee | 71 min |
| Jun 5, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Bay | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 97 min | |
| Jun 5, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Tuscola | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Saginaw | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Sanilac | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 6:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Bay | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 7:09 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 96 min | |
| Jun 5, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Huron | 75 min |
| Jun 5, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Washtenaw | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Tuscola | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Oakland | 74 min |
| Jun 5, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lapeer, Sanilac | 64 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.