Alert archive / Michigan / 1986
Weather alerts in Michigan, May 1986
40 weather alerts in May 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 40
- Warnings
- 40
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 6, 198616 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 11:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ingham, Jackson | 9 min |
| May 6, 11:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Livingston, Washtenaw | 44 min |
| May 6, 11:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lenawee | 44 min |
| May 6, 12:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Oakland, Wayne | 50 min |
| May 6, 12:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Macomb, Saint Clair | 47 min |
| May 6, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lenawee, Monroe | 51 min |
| May 6, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Monroe | 35 min |
| May 6, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Calhoun, Eaton | 27 min |
| May 6, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Muskegon, Oceana | 47 min |
| May 6, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lenawee, Monroe | 38 min |
| May 6, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Monroe | 59 min |
| May 6, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Calhoun, Jackson | 52 min |
| May 6, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Eaton, Jackson | 45 min |
| May 6, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ingham | 65 min |
| May 6, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ingham | 47 min |
| May 6, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Genesee | 45 min |
| May 6, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Shiawassee | 49 min |
| May 6, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Tuscola | 41 min |
| May 15, 7:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Branch | 40 min |
| May 15, 7:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Calhoun | 33 min |
| May 17, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lenawee, Washtenaw | 29 min |
| May 17, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Washtenaw | 29 min |
| May 17, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Washtenaw | 44 min |
| May 17, 4:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Washtenaw | 25 min |
| May 17, 4:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Montcalm | 25 min |
| May 17, 4:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Gratiot | 67 min |
| May 17, 4:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Washtenaw, Wayne | 28 min |
| May 17, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Wayne | 57 min |
| May 17, 5:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DTX | Midland, Saginaw | 51 min |
| May 17, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Clinton | 3 hr |
| May 17, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Gratiot | 2 hr |
| May 17, 6:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Kent | 26 min |
| May 17, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan | 23 min |
| May 17, 6:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Ionia | 38 min |
| May 17, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saginaw, Shiawassee | 39 min |
| May 17, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Newaygo | 44 min |
| May 17, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saginaw, Shiawassee | 56 min |
| May 17, 9:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Hillsdale | 27 min |
| May 17, 9:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Jackson | 34 min |
| May 17, 9:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Allegan | 24 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 27 |
| Tornado Warning | 13 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Washtenaw County6
- Jackson County4
- Lenawee County4
- Monroe County4
- Ingham County3
- Wayne County3
- Calhoun County3
- Shiawassee County3
- Saginaw County3
- Eaton County2
- Gratiot County2
- Allegan County2
- Livingston County1
- Oakland County1
- Macomb County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Muskegon County1
- Oceana County1
- Genesee County1
- Tuscola County1
- Branch County1
- Montcalm County1
- Midland County1
- Clinton County1
- Kent County1
- Ionia County1
- Newaygo County1
- Hillsdale County1
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.