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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this red flag warning at Apr 22, 2024, 9:14 AM EDT for Bay County, Midland County, Saginaw County, Michigan. It took effect at Apr 22, 2024, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 2024, 9:14 AM EDT (13:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 22, 2024, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2024, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
Counties Bay County, MI, Midland County, MI, Saginaw County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:18 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 1564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 3:17 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | DTX | 25 hr |
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.