Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2008, 2:25 PM EDT for Lenawee County, Monroe County, Michigan. It was in force for 80 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, 2008, 2:25 PM EDT (18:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2008, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 80 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Lenawee County, MI, Monroe County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:26 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.
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 8, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 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
- 283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 961 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 93 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.