Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 19, 2001

Name: Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 19, 2001
Start: 2001-06-19T19:42
End: 2001-06-19T20:17
Location: Michigan

June 19, 2001 · NWS DTX · 3 events in 1 county or zone

A cold front moving east across the southern Great Lakes region ignited thunderstorms in Indiana and Ohio. One of these moved across central and southern Monroe County, producing wind damage and large hail along its path.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
Other

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $55,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS DTX wrote it up.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 19, 2:10 PM EST, 5 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:10 PM EST, 5 hours 32 minutes before

SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI
310 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2001

FRONT NOW ON A BAD AXE...MBS...AZO LINE WITH BEST SURFACE
CONVERGENCE DEPICTED ACROSS EASTERN CWA INTO NORTHERN OHIO AND
INDIANA. DESPITE CAPES APPROACHING 4700 J/KG.../DTW 90-68 AT 3 PM IS
THERE/...NOT EVEN SO MUCH AS A SPRINKLE SHOWING UP IN THE OBS OR ON
RADAR. PLENTY OF DRY AIR OBSERVED ON MORNING SOUNDING PLUS DNVA
ACROSS CWA KEEPING A LID ON THINGS. STILL POSSIBLE THAT WE COULD GET
SOMETHING TO GO HERE BETWEEN NOW AND 8 OR 9 PM. CHANCES WILL BE FROM
FNT SOUTH... WITH BEST CHANCE FROM DTW SOUTH. STILL LOOKING TOWARD A
WIND HAIL THREAT.

FRONT WILL HANG UP ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND SERIES OF WEAK
WAVES.../MODEL SLP FIELD INDICATES 1020 LOWS NEXT TO 1021 HIGHS/...
WILL TRANSIT FRONT TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. FORECAST IS COMPLICATED
BY UNAVAILABILITY OF NCEP SUITE DUE TO TESTING. A REVIEW OF MESOETA
BACKUP...AFWA MM5...CANADIAN GEM...AND NGM MOS OUTPUT INDICATES THAT
HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION WILL FALL ACROSS SOUTHERN CWA OVERNIGHT
TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY WITH LESSER AMOUNTS TO THE NORTH. GOOD
DYNAMIC FORCING NOTED OVERNIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY ESPECIALLY ACROSS
SOUTHERN HALF OF THE CWA...WITH LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE...850MB
DEFORMATION...AND COUPLED 250/850 MB DIFFERENTIAL DIVERGENCE...ALL
SUPPORTING GOOD 700MB UVV/S. AS DAY PROGRESSES TOMORROW...FOCUS OF
BEST PRECIPITATION WILL BE ACROSS SOUTHERN PART OF THE CWA...WHERE
RAINFALL COULD BE HEAVY AT TIMES. INSTABILITY PARAMETERS ON THE
NORTH SIDE OF THE FRONT...NOT PARTICULARLY SUPPORTIVE OF THUNDER
CHANCES...SO WILL WORD THUNDER CHANCES AS /A THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLE/.
RAINFALL CHANCES WILL LINGER INTO WEDNESDAY EVENING IN FAR SOUTH CWA.

THURSDAY...STRONG TROUGH ROTATES TOWARD CWA...ACCOMPANIED BY GOOD
BOUT OF DPVA...500 MB TEMPS -18C TO MINUS 20C...AND RESPECTABLE MID
LEVEL RH SUGGEST CHANCE POPS CWA-WIDE FOR SHRA/TSRA.

ONLY GUIDANCE AVAILABLE FOR TEMPERATURE CONSIDERATIONS WERE FWCS AND
MODEL DERIVED TEMPERATURES. FEEL THAT FWC GUIDANCE IN THE MID 70S IS
TOO HIGH TOMORROW ACROSS CWA...ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTH WHERE
CLOUDS...TDS IN THE 50S...AND PRECIP LIKELY TO KEEP A LID ON ANY
TEMPERATURE RISES.

EXTENDED...
ALL EXTENDED MODELS SHOWING REMARKABLY GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH THE
EXTENDED...AND THAT YIELDS AN UNCHARACTERISTICALLY DRY FORECAST
THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD.

UPPER LEVEL TROUGH RAPIDLY SWINGS ACROSS CWA THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY
MORNING...THEN SLOWS ITS EASTWARD PROGRESSION IN RESPONSE TO
BUILDING HIGH OVER THE WESTERN ATLANTIC. TROUGH AXIS WILL SLOWLY
DRIFT TO THE EAST...AS UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WORKS TOWARD CWA. AT THE
SURFACE...HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE IN CONTROL FOR MUCH OF THE PERIOD.
WITH MEAN RH/S STAYING LOW AND SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE REMAINING IN
PLACE...EXTENDED LOOKS TO BE DRY. A COOL START TO THE PERIOD...THEN
TEMPERATURES WARMING BACK TO NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL AS 850 MB
TEMPS WARM TO 18C /PER MRF/ BY END OF THE EXTENDED.

.DTX...NONE.

OKEEFE

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 3:47 PM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes before

MIZ047>049-053>055-060>063-068>070-075-076-082-083-201200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI
447 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2001

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 453 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN...

DISPATCHERS...PLEASE NOTIFY YOUR EMERGENCY MANAGERS IMMEDIATELY.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 453 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR LENAWEE AND MONROE COUNTIES AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF
MONROE COUNTY. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN
THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHERN
INDIANA AND NORTHERN OHIO. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP NORTHEASTWARD INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN... REACHING
MONROE AND LENAWEE COUNTIES THIS EVENING.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST AROUND 30 MPH AND COULD PRODUCE
WIND GUSTS AROUND 70 MPH...AND HAIL UP TO AN INCH IN DIAMETER.
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY
THUNDERSTORM.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL TELEVISION OR RADIO
STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

KEYES

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 106 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:40 UTC.

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Event by event

2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Monroe

When: June 19, 7:42 PM EST to 7:50 PM EST
Where: Monroe County, Ottawa Lake
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 41.767, -83.750

Thunderstorm Wind, Monroe

When: June 19, 8:03 PM EST to 8:10 PM EST
Where: Monroe County, 4 mi N of Lambertville
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 41.817, -83.633

Trees and large limbs were blown down.

Thunderstorm Wind, Monroe

When: June 19, 8:14 PM EST to 8:17 PM EST
Where: Monroe County, Monroe
Measured: 53 kt (61 mph)
Property damage: $50,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 41.917, -83.400

Several trees, large limbs, and power lines were downed. Two cars in Monroe were smashed by falling trees. A home in Woodland Beach was heavily damaged when a tree fell on it. Power was out in downtown Monroe well into the next day.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Michigan in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Michigan, June 2001

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5253168, 5253169, 5253170.