Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 366
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 25, 2013, 6:38 PM EDT for 11 counties in Michigan. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2013, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2013, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Berrien County, MI, Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Cass County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
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 25, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch, Hillsdale | 41 min |
| Jun 25, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Hillsdale | 29 min |
| Jun 25, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lenawee | 73 min |
| Jun 25, 8:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Saint Joseph | 39 min |
| Jun 25, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 8:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | Branch, Hillsdale, Saint Joseph | 6 hr |
| Jun 25, 8:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Hillsdale | 50 min |
| Jun 25, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Hillsdale | 46 min |
| Jun 25, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch, Cass, Saint Joseph | 52 min |
| Jun 25, 10:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Jackson | 29 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 924 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 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 24, 9:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Clinton, Eaton and 13 more | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 3:38 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegan, Berrien, Cass, Van Buren | 97 min |
| Jun 25, 8:52 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph | 53 min |
| Jun 25, 6:13 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Eaton, Hillsdale and 11 more | 92 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.