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Tornado Watch 516
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 22, 2010, 4:53 PM EDT for 8 counties in Michigan. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2010, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2010, 7:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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 SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- 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
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Calhoun, Jackson | 46 min |
| Jul 22, 5:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Branch, Hillsdale | 68 min |
| Jul 22, 5:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Calhoun, Jackson | 29 min |
| Jul 22, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Lenawee | 72 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 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1135 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Hillsdale and 9 more | 90 min |
| Jul 22, 4:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Branch, Calhoun, Eaton, Hillsdale, Jackson, Lenawee and 3 more | 55 min |
| Jul 22, 6:29 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Clinton, Eaton, Gratiot, Ingham, Ionia and 5 more | 61 min |
| Jul 22, 7:33 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegan, Barry, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 22, 6:48 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Erie, Huron, Lorain, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky and 2 more | 5 hr |
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.