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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2014, 3:26 PM EDT for Livingston County, Shiawassee County, Washtenaw County, Michigan. It was in force for 64 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
- Aug 26, 2014, 3:26 PM EDT (19:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2014, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Livingston County, MI, Shiawassee County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 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 nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -226 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1506 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Aug 26, 2:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 2:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 26, 3:18 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 318 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2014 MIZ060-068-262000- LIVINGSTON-SHIAWASSEE- 318 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... AT 314 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES WEST OF LAINGSBURG TO 31 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FOWLERVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. * THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... LAINGSBURG BY 330 PM EDT... PERRY AND MORRICE BY 340 PM EDT... OWOSSO AND GREGORY BY 345 PM EDT... FOWLERVILLE AND BANCROFT BY 350 PM EDT... NEW LOTHROP AND OAK GROVE BY 355 PM EDT... BRIGHTON BY 400 PM EDT... GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED. SF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 3:55 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | DTX | 18 hr | |
| Aug 26, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Genesee, Oakland | 73 min |
| Aug 26, 4:18 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 57 min | |
| Aug 26, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Washtenaw, Wayne | 64 min |
| Aug 26, 4:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DTX | Washtenaw, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 65 min | |
| Aug 26, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Macomb, Saint Clair | 55 min |
| Aug 26, 5:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 58 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.