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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2026, 1:13 PM EDT for Genesee County, Michigan. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2026, 1:13 PM EDT (17:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Genesee County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this tornado warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 691 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
914
WFUS53 KDTX 091713
TORDTX
MIC049-091800-
/O.NEW.KDTX.TO.W.0015.260609T1713Z-260609T1800Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Tornado Warning
National Weather Service Detroit/Pontiac MI
113 PM EDT Tue Jun 9 2026
The National Weather Service in Detroit/Pontiac has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
Northern Genesee County in southeastern Michigan...
* Until 200 PM EDT.
* At 113 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located near Flushing, moving northeast at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed.
Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree
damage is likely.
* This dangerous storm will be near...
Flint, Clio, Burton, Mount Morris, Beecher, and Crossroads Village
around 120 PM EDT.
Otisville around 135 PM EDT.
Other locations impacted by this tornadic thunderstorm include
Genesee and Thetford Township.
This includes the following highways...
I-75 between mile markers 115 and 131.
I-475 between mile markers 6 and 16.
I-69 between mile markers 131 and 137.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! Move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest
floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a
mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter
and protect yourself from flying debris.
&&
LAT...LON 4295 8374 4305 8390 4322 8374 4322 8346
4315 8346
TIME...MOT...LOC 1713Z 219DEG 19KT 4304 8379
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN
$$
DRK2 follow-up statements
646
WWUS53 KDTX 091731
SVSDTX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Detroit/Pontiac MI
131 PM EDT Tue Jun 9 2026
MIC049-091800-
/O.CON.KDTX.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-260609T1800Z/
Genesee MI-
131 PM EDT Tue Jun 9 2026
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM EDT FOR NORTHERN
GENESEE COUNTY...
At 130 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located near Flushing, moving northeast at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage
to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is
likely.
This dangerous storm will be near...
Flint, Clio, Burton, Mount Morris, Beecher, and Crossroads Village
around 135 PM EDT.
Otisville around 150 PM EDT.
Other locations impacted by this tornadic thunderstorm include
Genesee and Thetford Township.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! Move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest
floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a
mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter
and protect yourself from flying debris.
&&
LAT...LON 4295 8374 4305 8390 4322 8374 4322 8346
4315 8346
TIME...MOT...LOC 1730Z 219DEG 19KT 4305 8378
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
$$
DRK082
WWUS53 KDTX 091742
SVSDTX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Detroit/Pontiac MI
142 PM EDT Tue Jun 9 2026
MIC049-091800-
/O.CON.KDTX.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-260609T1800Z/
Genesee MI-
142 PM EDT Tue Jun 9 2026
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM EDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN GENESEE COUNTY...
At 141 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located over Mount Morris, or near Clio, moving northeast at 20
mph.
HAZARD...Tornado.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage
to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is
likely.
This dangerous storm will be near...
Clio and Otisville around 145 PM EDT.
Otter Lake around 150 PM EDT.
Other locations impacted by this tornadic thunderstorm include
Genesee and Thetford Township.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! Move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest
floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a
mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter
and protect yourself from flying debris.
&&
LAT...LON 4307 8363 4312 8381 4322 8372 4322 8346
4315 8352
TIME...MOT...LOC 1741Z 220DEG 17KT 4314 8367
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
$$
DRKWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 9, 1:05 PM EDT, 8 minutes earlier. Its key messages:
- Showers and thunderstorms this afternoon into the evening will pose a locally heavy rainfall and isolated damaging wind gust threat.
- Heat and humidity builds in Wednesday and Thursday. Afternoon temperatures are expected to reach the low 90s with heat indices potentially climbing into the upper 90s. A Heat Advisory may eventually be needed.
- Thunderstorms will be possible Wednesday and Thursday. The greater severe thunderstorm threat will be late Thursday/Thursday night with a Slight Risk in place for all of southeast Michigan.
- Not as warm and much less humid Friday through the weekend.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 1:05 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Detroit/Pontiac MI 105 PM EDT Tue Jun 9 2026 .KEY MESSAGES... - Showers and thunderstorms this afternoon into the evening will pose a locally heavy rainfall and isolated damaging wind gust threat. - Heat and humidity builds in Wednesday and Thursday. Afternoon temperatures are expected to reach the low 90s with heat indices potentially climbing into the upper 90s. A Heat Advisory may eventually be needed. - Thunderstorms will be possible Wednesday and Thursday. The greater severe thunderstorm threat will be late Thursday/Thursday night with a Slight Risk in place for all of southeast Michigan. - Not as warm and much less humid Friday through the weekend. && .AVIATION... Warm frontal boundary has largely lifted north of the terminal corridor ushering in increasing low level moisture supporting MVFR ceilings. Scattered showers have thus far developed early this afternoon however satellite obs show partial clearing over SW lower MI which is advancing into SE MI. Increasing solar insolation is still expected to allow for scattered thunderstorm development this afternoon lingering into the evening hours. Overall setup carries low predictability so have maintained inherited tempo-prob 30 framework to highlight the windows for potential storms with minor tweaks to timing. Soundings advertise an inversion developing overnight as drier air filters in aloft which should result in a persistent low VFR-high MVFR cloud layer going into Wednesday morning. D21/DTW Convection... Scattered thunderstorms are possible this afternoon through the evening (18-02Z) with higher coverage favored for the 18-21Z window. .DTW THRESHOLD PROBABILITIES... * High for ceilings aob 5000 feet today and tonight. * Moderate for thunderstorms between 18z and 02z this evening. && .PREV DISCUSSION... Issued at 948 AM EDT Tue Jun 9 2026 UPDATE... The 09.12z KDTX raob sampled a thermodynamic profile that contained a fair amount of subsaturated air and residual static stability in the lowest 10.0 kft agl. Progs on isentropic surfaces suggests a high amount of moisture exists immediately upstream tied to a pseudo moisture transport axis arcing from the midlevel PV maximum/convectively augmented low pressure circulation now lifting through east central Wisconsin. Observationally this tracks with the line of shower activity immediately at the doorstep aligning to this moisture axis. Precipitation chances will increase through the midday period as this spoke pushes to the east or northeast through the area. No severe weather is anticipated in the immediate now term. Later this afternoon, anticipated breaks in the clouds should allow June insolation to steepen lapse rates considerably in the 1000- 850mb layer. Forecast soundings suggest that while CAPE profiles will remain skinny, equilibrium heights should have no problem reaching 35.0 kft agl and SBCAPES should reach 1250-1500 J/kg. With any deep convection and PWATS reaching near 2.0 inches the concern will be water loading/wet microbursts from cell collapses. Isolated strong to possibly severe wind gusts may become possible during the late afternoon and early evening. Something to monitor. PREV DISCUSSION... Issued at 404 AM EDT Tue Jun 9 2026 DISCUSSION... Mid level low pressure circulation will move across the Upper Peninsula today and drag a weak frontal zone across southeast Michigan this afternoon. A few showers/isolated thunderstorms are preceding this front this morning with the lead vorticity and thetae advection. The low level jet will help carry and an impressive moisture rich environment into the area today. PWATs from observed soundings last evening at ILX and DVN came in at 2.01 inches and 1.91 inches respectively. This airmass is arriving locally this morning along with the low 70s dewpoints being observed lifting into lower Michigan. The moisture and inbound front will support high PoPs across the area that increase this morning and carry into early evening. Favorable diurnal timing will yield CAPE values around 1500- 2000 j/kg helping support stronger updrafts. Limiting factors that will preclude a mention of a greater severe weather threat will be weak bulk shear at 20-25 knots and weak lapse rates. The warm cloud depths and moist adiabatic lapse rates point do point towards a greater heavy rainfall threat, which in turn brings potential for strong gusty winds from precip loaded downburst. Guidance continues to point towards pockets of 1-2 inches or greater of QPF that will be possible focused between 16Z and 04Z today. Confidence is low as to where these localized higher totals will possibly fall. Southeast Michigan remains in General Thunderstorms for the SPC Convective outlook for today. Ridging will translate over the central Great Lakes Wednesday into Thursday. Increasing southwest flow will carry an even warmer airmass into the region with 850mb temperatures climbing to around 20C. This leads to an increase in surface temperatures reaching the low 90s. Add in the persisting humid airmass with dewpoints in the upper 60s to mid 70s and heat indices should approach 100 degrees and bring potential for heat headlines. The other concern for Wednesday will be the severe weather potential, which appears to be towards the later part of the day as a shortwave arrives on the heals of the passing ridge. Additional forcing from the increasing low level jet may be enough to trigger convection in the backdrop of greater subsidence and capping with the upper ridging. Tail end of the HREF suggests some convection is able to develop which would pose mainly a wind and hail threat. Strong instability (2000-3000 j/kg of MLCAPE) and steeper mid level lapse rates will be available, but shear remains lacking Wednesday evening. A Marginal Risk for all of southeast Michigan is in place for Wednesday. A brief lull in precip looks possible Thursday afternoon with afternoon conditions remaining hot and humid with heat indices again approaching 100 degree. The greater severe weather threat is also slated for late Thursday and Thursday night. A strong wave will cross the western Great Lakes into Ontario and send a cold front through the region. Timing will be less favorable after peak heating, but models do offer enough instability with strong wind fields yielding good shear and more favorable lapse rates. This set up points towards a cold pool driven MCS along the front that would arrive locally pending the environment remains favorable. A Slight Risk for all of southeast Michigan is in place for Thursday. The cold front sweeping through will drive the hot and humid airmass off to the east and bring more seasonable conditions for Friday into the weekend. Lower confidence forecast over the weekend as troughing holds over the Midwest brings low end precip chances. Afternoon temperatures by Sunday are forecast to be back down into the 70s and low 80s. MARINE... Weak low pressure tracks across Lower MI today and reaches Lake Huron late this evening. Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms will spread across the area with wind predominantly out of the southeast near 10 kt. Isolated storms may produce winds in excess of 34 kt. A warm and unstable air mass will take residence Wednesday and Thursday, bringing additional chances for showers and thunderstorms. Prevailing wind will be out of the west and southwest with potential for gusts upwards of 20 kt at times, especially over the shallower, warmer waters of Saginaw Bay, western Lake Erie, and Lake St. Clair. A cold front passes through the region on Friday and brings a brief period of drier conditions. HYDROLOGY... A moisture rich environment will pose a locally heavy rainfall threat today. While most ensemble members put QPF amounts generally within 0.25" to 0.75", the environment will be supportive of pockets of 1.00" to 2.00" rainfall amounts or greater. Highly variable amounts can be expected across southeast Michigan. Convective rainfall rates will have potential to reach 1.00" or greater at times, especially during the afternoon and early evening. Low confidence exists as to where these heavier pockets of rainfall would fall, but the environment will certainly support isolated flash flooding potential especially if it occurs over any urban areas or flood prone areas. && .DTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MI...None. Lake Huron...None. Lake St Clair...None. Michigan waters of Lake Erie...None. && AVIATION.....KDK UPDATE.......CB DISCUSSION...AA MARINE.......TF HYDROLOGY....AA You can obtain your latest National Weather Service forecasts online at www.weather.gov/detroit.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 4:26 AM EDT, 8 hours 47 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Detroit/Pontiac MI 426 AM EDT Tue Jun 9 2026 MIZ047>049-053>055-060>063-068>070-075-076-082-083-100830- Midland-Bay-Huron-Saginaw-Tuscola-Sanilac-Shiawassee-Genesee-Lapeer- St. Clair-Livingston-Oakland-Macomb-Washtenaw-Wayne-Lenawee-Monroe- 426 AM EDT Tue Jun 9 2026 This hazardous weather outlook is for southeast Michigan. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Widespread rain and thunderstorms return Tuesday posing a heavy rain threat with potential for pockets of 1 to 2 inches of rainfall in a short period of time. Gusty downburst winds will be possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday A hot and stormy pattern is expected Wednesday and Thursday with potential for heat indices in the mid 90s or higher. Severe weather also possible each day with a Marginal Risk for Wednesday and greater severe potential Thursday evening/Thursday night with a Slight Risk in place for all of southeast Michigan. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will most likely not be needed today and tonight. LCZ460-LEZ444-LHZ361>363-421-422-441>443-462>464-100830- Lake St Clair- Michigan Waters of Lake Erie from Detroit River to North Cape MI- Lake Huron from 5NM east of Mackinac Bridge to Presque Isle Lt beyond 5 NM off shore- Lake Huron from Presque Isle Light to Sturgeon Point MI beyond 5NM off shore- Lake Huron from Sturgeon Point to Alabaster MI beyond 5NM off shore- Outer Saginaw Bay SW of Alabaster to Port Austin MI to Inner Saginaw Bay-Inner Saginaw Bay SW of Point Au Gres to Bay Port MI- Port Austin to Harbor Beach MI-Harbor Beach to Port Sanilac MI- Port Sanilac to Port Huron MI- Lake Huron from Port Austin to Harbor Beach beyond 5NM Off Shore- Lake Huron from Harbor Beach to Port Sanilac beyond 5NM Off Shore- Lake Huron from Port Sanilac to Port Huron beyond 5NM Off Shore- 426 AM EDT Tue Jun 9 2026 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of Lake Erie, Lake Huron and Lake St Clair. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Showers and thunderstorms can be expected this afternoon and evening. Gusty winds will be possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday Unsettled pattern brings periodic thunderstorm chances to the Great Lakes again Wednesday and Thursday. A elevated severe weather threat exists Wednesday and Thursday with Thursday evening/night holding the greater potential. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will most likely not be needed today and tonight. You can obtain your latest National Weather Service forecasts online at www.weather.gov/detroit. AA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 11:50 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Saginaw, Shiawassee | 40 min |
| Jun 9, 12:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Saginaw | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 12:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Saginaw, Shiawassee | 41 min |
| Jun 9, 2:01 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | DTX | Lenawee, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, Washtenaw, Wayne | 30 hr |
| Jun 9, 2:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Wayne | 27 min |
| Jun 9, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | DTX | Macomb, Saint Clair | 80 min |
| Jun 9, 6:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | DTX | Wayne | 66 min |
| Jun 9, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | DTX | Huron | 64 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.