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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Detroit, MI

March 15, 202517 counties in Michigan

NWS Detroit, MI issued this wind advisory at Mar 15, 2025, 12:13 AM EDT for 17 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Mar 15, 2025, 7:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 15, 2025, 12:13 AM EDT (04:13 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 15, 2025, 7:00 AM EDT
Expired
Mar 15, 2025, 10:48 PM EDT
In force
16 hr
Issued by
NWS Detroit, MI

Counties Bay County, MI, Genesee County, MI, Huron County, MI, Lapeer County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Livingston County, MI, Macomb County, MI, Midland County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Oakland County, MI, Saginaw County, MI, Saint Clair County, MI, Sanilac County, MI, Shiawassee County, MI, Tuscola County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:12 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 25 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 2025-03-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2025-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 269 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1914 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
269 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
429 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 15, 12:03 AM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 12:03 AM EDT, 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 15, 3:51 AM EDTGale WarningDTX18 hr
Mar 15, 5:19 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXBay, Genesee, Lapeer, Saginaw, Shiawassee, Tuscola56 min
Mar 15, 5:32 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXOakland58 min
Mar 15, 5:52 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXMacomb38 min
Mar 15, 6:13 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXHuron, Sanilac47 min
Mar 15, 6:21 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXBay, Genesee, Midland, Saginaw, Shiawassee39 min
Mar 15, 3:20 PM EDTGale WarningDTX31 hr
Mar 15, 3:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXWashtenaw33 min
Mar 15, 4:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXLenawee39 min
Mar 15, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTXLenawee40 min
Mar 15, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTXLenawee, Monroe, Washtenaw44 min
Mar 15, 5:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXLivingston, Oakland35 min
Mar 15, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTXLivingston, Oakland, Wayne46 min
Mar 15, 5:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXLapeer46 min
Mar 15, 6:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementDTXSaint Clair34 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.