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Tornado Watch 269
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 5, 2010, 11:12 PM EDT for 8 counties in Michigan. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2010, 11:12 PM EDT (03:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2010, 1:26 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Allegan County, MI, Barry County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Van Buren County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 11:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Calhoun, Eaton, Ingham, Jackson | 8 min |
| Jun 5, 11:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Calhoun, Jackson | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 11:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Barry, Calhoun, Eaton, Kalamazoo, Van Buren | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 11:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo, Van Buren | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 11:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Calhoun | 51 min |
| Jun 6, 12:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRR | Calhoun, Kalamazoo | 6 hr |
| Jun 6, 12:11 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Calhoun, Eaton, Ingham, Jackson | 37 min |
| Jun 6, 12:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo | 20 min |
| Jun 6, 12:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRR | Jackson | 5 hr |
| Jun 6, 12:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Calhoun, Jackson | 42 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 9:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Branch, Saint Joseph | 58 min |
| Jun 5, 10:11 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berrien, Branch, Cass, Hillsdale, Lenawee, Livingston and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 10:29 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Calhoun, Eaton, Ingham, Jackson, Kalamazoo and 3 more | 61 min |
| Jun 6, 12:17 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Eaton and 12 more | 118 min |
Nearby
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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.