Alert archive / Michigan / Flood Watches in 2017
Flood Watch 3, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this flood watch at Apr 10, 2017, 3:02 PM EDT for 9 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Apr 10, 2017, 7:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 2017, 3:02 PM EDT (19:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 10, 2017, 7:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2017, 2:52 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bay County, MI, Genesee County, MI, Huron County, MI, Lapeer County, MI, Midland County, MI, Saginaw County, MI, Sanilac County, MI, Shiawassee County, MI, Tuscola County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 380 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
- 1191 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 10:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | DTX | Genesee, Saginaw, Shiawassee | 64 min |
| Apr 10, 11:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | DTX | Saginaw, Tuscola | 61 min |
| Apr 10, 11:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | DTX | Huron, Sanilac | 42 min |
| Apr 10, 11:50 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | DTX | 85 min | |
| Apr 10, 11:53 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | DTX | Genesee, Lapeer, Livingston, Monroe, Oakland, Washtenaw and 1 more | 52 min |
| Apr 10, 12:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | DTX | Lapeer, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, Saint Clair, Sanilac and 1 more | 67 min |
| Apr 10, 3:48 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | DTX | 18 hr | |
| Apr 10, 4:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | DTX | Lenawee, Washtenaw | 55 min |
| Apr 10, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | DTX | Wayne | 38 min |
Nearby
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.