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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 382
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 1, 2014, 1:44 AM EDT for 9 counties in Michigan; 18 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2014, 1:44 AM EDT (05:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2014, 5:44 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 27 counties
Hillsdale County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Livingston County, MI, Macomb County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Oakland County, MI, Saint Clair County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI, Allen County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Henry County, OH, Huron County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:47 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 1:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch, Hillsdale | 46 min |
| Jul 1, 2:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Van Wert | 44 min |
| Jul 1, 2:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Hillsdale | 37 min |
| Jul 1, 2:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Livingston, Washtenaw | 58 min |
| Jul 1, 2:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lenawee | 67 min |
| Jul 1, 2:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding, Williams | 37 min |
| Jul 1, 2:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert | 65 min |
| Jul 1, 2:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Oakland, Wayne | 63 min |
| Jul 1, 3:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Lucas, Wood | 54 min |
| Jul 1, 3:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Monroe | 53 min |
| Jul 1, 3:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lapeer, Macomb | 53 min |
| Jul 1, 3:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saint Clair, Sanilac | 48 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 1381 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1064 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 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 30, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegan, Arenac, Barry, Calhoun, Clare, Clinton and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 30, 8:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berrien | 88 min |
| Jun 30, 9:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berrien | 31 min |
| Jun 30, 10:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Calhoun, Cass, Clare, Clinton, Eaton and 10 more | 84 min |
| Jun 30, 11:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berrien, Branch, Cass, Saint Joseph | 4 hr |
| Jul 1, 12:31 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Branch, Cass, Kalamazoo, Saint Joseph | 89 min |
| Jul 1, 1:24 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Branch, Calhoun, Eaton, Hillsdale, Ingham, Jackson and 7 more | 66 min |
| Jul 1, 4:05 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Macomb, Saint Clair | 55 min |
| Jul 1, 2:56 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 19 more | 64 min |
| Jul 1, 3:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson, Mahoning, Stark and 1 more | 53 min |
| Jul 1, 5:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, Warren | 92 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.