Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2007, 3:34 PM EDT for Tuscola County, Michigan. It was in force for 56 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
- Jul 9, 2007, 3:34 PM EDT (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2007, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 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), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 4:13 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Cass City, MI | A 6 INCH DIAMETER TREE BRANCH WAS BLOWN DOWN IN CASS CITY. |
| Jul 9, 4:13 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | Cass City, MI |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 677 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1377 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDTX 091934 TORDTX MIC157-092030- /O.NEW.KDTX.TO.W.0004.070709T1934Z-070709T2030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 334 PM EDT MON JUL 9 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TUSCOLA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN * UNTIL 430 PM EDT * AT 330 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ELLINGTON...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF CARO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... DEFORD AND WILMOT BY 340 PM EDT... CASS CITY BY 345 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. LAT...LON 4367 8353 4344 8352 4342 8311 4368 8312 $$ WAG / MANN
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDTX 091948 SVSDTX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 347 PM EDT MON JUL 9 2007 MIC157-092030- /O.CON.KDTX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070709T2030Z/ TUSCOLA MI- 347 PM EDT MON JUL 9 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR TUSCOLA COUNTY... AT 343 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...LOCATED NEAR DEFORD...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF CARO...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 5 MILES SOUTH OF CASS CITY AT 400 PM EDT IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 1 INCH DIAMETER HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. PEOPLE IN THE PROJECTED PATH OF THE TORNADO SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. MOVE INSIDE A BASEMENT...OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. LAT...LON 4367 8353 4344 8352 4342 8311 4368 8312 $$ WAG MANN
000 WWUS53 KDTX 092003 SVSDTX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 403 PM EDT MON JUL 9 2007 MIC157-092030- /O.CON.KDTX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070709T2030Z/ TUSCOLA MI- 403 PM EDT MON JUL 9 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR TUSCOLA COUNTY... AT 400 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...LOCATED NEAR ELLINGTON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF CARO...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... DEFORD AND 7 MILES NORTH OF WILMOT BY 410 PM EDT... CASS CITY BY 415 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. LAT...LON 4367 8353 4344 8352 4342 8311 4368 8312 $$ MANN
000 WWUS53 KDTX 092023 SVSDTX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 423 PM EDT MON JUL 9 2007 MIC157-092033- /O.EXP.KDTX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070709T2030Z/ TUSCOLA MI- 423 PM EDT MON JUL 9 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR TUSCOLA COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD EXITED THE COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. LAT...LON 4367 8353 4344 8352 4342 8311 4368 8312 $$ MANN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 3:50 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | DTX | Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, Washtenaw and 1 more | 12 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Bay, Midland, Saginaw | 51 min |
| Jul 9, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 65 min | |
| Jul 9, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Tuscola | 71 min |
| Jul 9, 3:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Sanilac | 81 min |
| Jul 9, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Bay | 25 min |
| Jul 9, 4:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 60 min | |
| Jul 9, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 93 min | |
| Jul 9, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saginaw | 48 min |
| Jul 9, 4:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 97 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.