Alert archive / Michigan / 1997
Weather alerts in Michigan, May 1997
44 weather alerts in May 1997, 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 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 44
- Warnings
- 39
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 5, 199715 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 8:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Saint Joseph | 37 min |
| Apr 30, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clinton, Genesee, Gratiot, Hillsdale, Ingham, Jackson and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Calhoun | 51 min |
| May 5, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegan, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Kalamazoo and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 5, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ottawa | 48 min |
| May 5, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan | 65 min |
| May 5, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kent | 59 min |
| May 5, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ottawa | 31 min |
| May 5, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Barry, Ionia | 63 min |
| May 5, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo | 63 min |
| May 5, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Lake | 35 min |
| May 5, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Mecosta | 66 min |
| May 5, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Branch, Hillsdale | 61 min |
| May 5, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Roscommon | 44 min |
| May 5, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ingham | 59 min |
| May 5, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Ogemaw | 50 min |
| May 5, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Isabella | 63 min |
| May 5, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Gladwin | 45 min |
| May 5, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Saginaw | 35 min |
| May 5, 9:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Genesee | 49 min |
| May 5, 11:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Washtenaw | 25 min |
| May 5, 11:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Wayne | 48 min |
| May 8, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Osceola | 32 min |
| May 8, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Clare | 66 min |
| May 8, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Gladwin | 62 min |
| May 8, 9:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Mecosta | 50 min |
| May 8, 9:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Midland, Saginaw | 43 min |
| May 8, 10:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Bay | 34 min |
| May 8, 10:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Arenac | 50 min |
| May 8, 11:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Tuscola | 49 min |
| May 18, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegan, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 8:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ottawa | 48 min |
| May 18, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Van Buren | 36 min |
| May 18, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegan, Barry, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 18, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Berrien, Van Buren | 65 min |
| May 18, 10:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Cass | 35 min |
| May 18, 10:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Saint Joseph | 51 min |
| May 18, 10:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Branch, Calhoun | 47 min |
| May 18, 10:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Jackson | 49 min |
| May 18, 10:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Hillsdale | 50 min |
| May 18, 10:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Oakland | 48 min |
| May 18, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Branch, Calhoun, Hillsdale, Jackson, Lenawee, Monroe | 6 hr |
| May 18, 11:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lenawee | 57 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 | 38 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hillsdale County6
- Calhoun County6
- Branch County6
- Kalamazoo County5
- Saint Joseph County5
- Van Buren County5
- Jackson County4
- Lenawee County4
- Allegan County4
- Berrien County4
- Cass County4
- Ingham County3
- Monroe County3
- Washtenaw County3
- Ottawa County3
- Genesee County2
- Oakland County2
- Wayne County2
- Barry County2
- Mecosta County2
- Gladwin County2
- Saginaw County2
- Clinton County1
- Gratiot County1
- Lapeer County1
- Livingston County1
- Macomb County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Shiawassee County1
- Kent County1
- Ionia County1
- Lake County1
- Roscommon County1
- Ogemaw County1
- Isabella County1
- Osceola County1
- Clare County1
- Midland County1
- Bay County1
- Arenac County1
2 more counties
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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.