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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Detroit, MI

May 31, 2019Midland County, Michigan

NWS Detroit, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2019, 10:46 PM EDT for Midland County, Michigan. It was in force for 44 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
May 31, 2019, 10:46 PM EDT (02:46 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2019, 11:30 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Detroit, MI
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Midland County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:50 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 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2019-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 70 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2019-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
70 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 May 31, 8:39 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 8:39 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 31, 10:26 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 10:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXMidland79 min
May 31, 10:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXBay61 min
May 31, 11:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXSaginaw74 min
May 31, 11:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXTuscola69 min
Jun 1, 12:10 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXSanilac65 min
Jun 1, 1:28 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXShiawassee62 min
Jun 1, 9:21 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXSaginaw24 min
Jun 1, 10:09 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXGenesee36 min
Jun 1, 12:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXWashtenaw46 min
Jun 1, 1:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXGenesee, Livingston, Shiawassee57 min
Jun 1, 1:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXSaginaw54 min
Jun 1, 1:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXLivingston, Washtenaw58 min
Jun 1, 1:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTXGenesee, Livingston, Shiawassee52 min
Jun 1, 1:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTXLivingston, Oakland60 min
Jun 1, 1:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTXLenawee, Monroe, Washtenaw, Wayne55 min
Jun 1, 1:59 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningDTX91 min
Jun 1, 2:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXTuscola40 min
Jun 1, 2:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTXOakland47 min
Jun 1, 2:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXLapeer, Saint Clair60 min
Jun 1, 2:22 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningDTX83 min
Jun 1, 2:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTXLenawee, Monroe40 min
Jun 1, 2:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXMacomb, Saint Clair, Wayne67 min
Jun 1, 2:41 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningDTX63 min
Jun 1, 2:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTXLapeer, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, Saint Clair, Sanilac and 1 more45 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.