1 strong wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Jan 5, 6:50 PM EST, 13 hours 10 minutes earlier.
SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 650 PM EST SUN JAN 5 2003 GIVEN RECENT INCREASE IN RADAR REFLECTIVITIES IN AND AROUND SOUTHEAST MI AND GROWING REPORTS OF FLURRIES OR LIGHT SNOW SHOWERS...WILL BEEF UP THE WORDING FOR SCATTERED LIGHT SNOW SHOWERS THROUGH THE EVENING. ALSO WILL GO CATEGORICAL POPS LATER TONIGHT WITH ANTICIPATED GREATER SYNOPTIC SCALE FORCING AND SATURATED DEEP ATMOSPHERIC COLUMN. .DTX...NONE. DWD EXPERIMENTAL GRAPHICAL FORECASTS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/DTX (ALL LOWER CASE)
MIZ047>049-053>055-060>063-068>070-075-076-082-083-071100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 500 AM EST MON JAN 6 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN .DAY ONE...TODAY. COLD FRONT CURRENTLY SWINGING THROUGH SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN EARLY THIS MORNING. SNOW WILL TAPER OFF TO SCATTERED FLURRIES THIS MORNING. ANY ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE LESS THAN AN INCH...EXCEPT UP TO 3 INCHES NEAR LAKE HURON WHERE LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS WILL PERSIST THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THE NEXT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER MAKER WILL BE AN ARCTIC FRONT...WHICH IS EXPECTED TO PUSH THROUGH THE REGION ON THURSDAY. THIS FRONT WILL GENERATE NORTHWEST GALE FORCE WINDS OVER LAKE HURON. SNOW SHOWERS WILL LIKELY ACCOMPANY THE FRONT AS WELL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS...FOR THE LATEST FORECAST INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. YOU CAN ALSO OBTAIN THE LATEST FORECAST ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB SITE HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/DTX/ (ALL LOWER CASE) SF
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High winds blew a tree onto live electric wires in the city of Ann Arbor.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Michigan in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, January 2003
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: 5338187.