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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2008, 4:30 PM EDT for Wayne County, Michigan. It was in force for 48 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
- Jun 23, 2008, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2008, 5:18 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Wayne County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 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 Jun 23, 3:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 3:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 1:22 PM EDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 122 PM EDT MON JUN 23 2008 MIZ075-082-083-231815- LENAWEE-MONROE-WASHTENAW- 122 PM EDT MON JUN 23 2008 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT... AT 118 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM DEXTER TO 7 MILES SOUTH OF SALINE TO 4 MILES SOUTH OF MANCHESTER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL...OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF MODERATE DOWNPOURS...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. * THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... CLINTON BY 130 PM EDT... SALINE BY 155 PM EDT... TECUMSEH AND ANN ARBOR BY 215 PM EDT... STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED. MANN /
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 2:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 214 PM EDT MON JUN 23 2008 MIZ083-231915- MONROE- 214 PM EDT MON JUN 23 2008 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT... AT 209 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES EAST OF CARLETON TO 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF DUNDEE...MOVING SOUTH AT 16 MPH. ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING... BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. * THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... DUNDEE BY 220 PM EDT... MONROE AND IDA BY 240 PM EDT... LUNA PIER BY 315 PM EDT... STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED. MANN /
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Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 23, 12:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Wayne | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 2:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 57 min | |
| Jun 23, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Monroe | 39 min |
| Jun 23, 2:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 32 min | |
| Jun 23, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lapeer, Sanilac | 27 min |
| Jun 23, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Oakland | 57 min |
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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.