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NWS Detroit, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 10, 5:20 PM EST, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 620 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2006 .AVIATION... WIDESPREAD MVFR CONDITIONS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION BETWEEN 00Z AND 02Z. WEAK CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE TO DRIVE NORTH ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH 04Z AS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE OHIO VALLEY RAPIDLY DEEPENS AND TRACKS NORTH TOWARD THE LOWER GREAT LAKES. WEAK WARM FRONT WILL ALSO MOVE NORTH THROUGH DTW AREA BY 00Z...FNT 04Z AND MBS 06Z. THIS FRONT WILL FOCUS WEAK CONVECTION AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION THEN MORE WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION BEHIND THE FRONT AS SYNOPTIC LIFT INCREASES. ANTICIPATE MVFR CONDITIONS TO PERSIST THROUGH THE NIGHT AS LOW MOVES INTO THE LOWER GREAT LAKES...SURFACE WINDS TO ALSO STEADILY INCREASE AS THIS SYSTEM STRENGTHENS. THUNDER MOST LIKELY THROUGH 04Z...THEN MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES MARGINAL AT BEST. AREAS OF IFR ALSO LIKELY...ESPECIALLY 03-08Z AS BEST SYNOPTIC LIFT MOVES THROUGH SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN. ANTICIPATE WIDESPREAD MVFR CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY AS WELL AS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM REMAINS NEARLY STATIONARY OVER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN. && .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT AND THURSDAY RAIN TO ARRIVE TONIGHT...WITH QPF AMOUNTS IN QUESTION. IN ANY EVENT...WE CERTAINLY CAN AFFORD TO ABSORB A HEAVY RAINFALL AS FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE IS RUNNING HIGH ACROSS SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. 6 HR GUIDANCE RANGES FROM 4-4.5 INCHES ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE CWA TO 2.5-3 INCHES ACROSS THE FAR SOUTHEAST PART OF THE CWA. ONE CONCERN ARE THE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEXES TRAVERSING ACROSS THE GULF COAST STATES...WHICH ARE NOT BEING PICKED UP WELL BY THE 12Z MODELS. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY ROB SOME OF THE GULF MOISTURE TRANSPORT. ON THE FLIP SIDE...12Z DTX SOUNDING DID SHOW A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF MOISTURE ALREADY IN PLACE...PW VALUE OF 0.99 OR 167 PERCENT OF NORMAL. ENOUGH SURFACE BASED INSTABILITY/MOISTURE IN PLACE THIS AFTERNOON TO POP SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ALONG WEAK SURFACE TROUGH OVER CENTRAL SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN. ACTIVITY SHOULD REMAIN RATHER UNORGANIZED WITH THE MODEST INSTABILITY/MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES AND THE WEAK SURFACE CONVERGENCE. MAIN HAZARD WOULD BE SMALL HAIL WITH FREEZING LEVELS AROUND 11000 FEET. THE MAIN SHOW/BATCH OF RAIN IS YET TO COME... LATEST WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATING OUR UPPER LEVEL LOW COMING TOGETHER NICELY OVER THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY/NORTHERN PLAINS...AS SEVERAL STRONG SHORTWAVES WERE NOTED. THE CENTER OF THE UPPER LEVEL CIRCULATION WILL MOVE OVER THE MIDWEST TONIGHT WITH RAPID CYCLOGENESIS TAKING PLACE OVER THE NORTHERN OHIO VALLEY/SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN. STRONG 850 TO 700 MB MOISTURE TRANSPORT COUPLED WITH GOOD UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE OVER SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN WILL LEAD TO SHOWERS TONIGHT (100 PERCENT POPS). UNFORTUNATELY...STILL SOME SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE 12Z PARALLEL NAM AND GFS WITH PLACEMENT OF SURFACE LOW AND AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY OVERNIGHT. NONE-THE-LESS...WOULD EXPECT WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE GOOD DYNAMICS AND ADEQUATE MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES. IT APPEARS THERE WILL NOT BE ENOUGH LOW LEVEL INSTABILITY TO WARRANT ANY MENTION OF SEVERE STORMS. SOME OTHER GOOD NEWS IS BOTH GFS/PARALLEL NAM ONLY INDICATING THE SURFACE LOW DEEPENING INTO THE LOW 980S MB TOMORROW MORNING. BASED ON THIS WEAKER SOLUTION...NOT TERRIBLY WORRIED ABOUT A WIND ADVISORY FOR TOMORROW AS BEST PRESSURE GRADIENT REMAINS OVER SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AS WELL. OBVIOUSLY WITH CONVECTION QPF FORECASTS ARE DIFFICULT AND WILL VARY QUITE A BIT. BUT...GENERALLY THINKING A HALF AN INCH TO ONE AND HALF INCHES ACROSS THE FAR WESTERN PART OF THE CWA WITH AN ISOLATED 2 INCH TOTAL POSSIBLE THROUGH TOMORROW. TEMPS FOR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW SEEMED REASONABLE AND ONLY MADE MINOR CHANGES IF ANY. OCCLUSION WORKING THROUGH SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN TOMORROW WILL PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR CATEGORICAL SHOWERS. && .LONG TERM...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY LATEST TRENDS WITHIN THE NCEP SUITE...ECMWF AND UKMET SHOW THIS DEVELOPING UPPER LOW WILL BE HERE TO STAY FOR SOME TIME TO COME AS A BLOCKING HIGH ACROSS CENTRAL QUEBEC AND RIDGE HOLDING TIGHT ACROSS SOUTHWEST CONUS INTO BAJA CALIFORNIA WILL KEEP THIS UPPER LOW WOBBLING AROUND THROUGH MOST OF THIS FORECAST PERIOD. EXACT DETAILS WHERE ADDITIONAL SHORT WAVES AND TIMING OF THOSE WAVES WILL BE PROBLEMATIC HENCE OUR CHANCE FOR SHOWERS THROUGH MOST OF THE PERIODS. FURTHERMORE...AS WARMER AIR BEGINS TO COME AROUND THE NORTH SIDE OF THIS UPPER LOW THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR A TROWAL/DEFORMATION AXIS TO IMPACT THE CENTRAL GREAT LAKES LATER IN THE WEEKEND AND PERHAPS EARLY NEXT WEEK. WE WILL DISCARD THE COLD GFS BIAS AT 850MB AS THIS SEEMS TO BE AN ISSUE WITH INITIAL CONVECTIVE ELEMENTS AND DRIER AIR ENTRAINMENT WHICH RESULTS IN A WET BULB PROCESS AND THE SUB ZERO VALUES. HPC GUIDANCE AT 12Z WITH A BLEND OF THE 00Z MEX NUMBERS OFFER A GOOD COMPROMISE WITH 12Z GFS 2M TEMPS. THIS RESULTS IN TEMPERATURES A GOOD 10 TO 15 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL THROUGH THE WEEKEND WITH A MODERATION INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AS UPPER LOW BEGINS TO SLOWLY MIGRATE EAST OF THE LOCAL AREA. WE WILL HOLD OUT OPTIMISTICALLY THAT IMPROVEMENTS ARRIVE TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY WHERE WE WILL HOLD ONTO THE CLOUDS BUT KEEP PRECIP OUT OF THE FORECAST AT THIS TIME. && .DTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MI...NONE. LAKE HURON...GALE WARNING...FOR THE OPEN LAKE AND NEAR SHORE WATERS INCLUDING SAGINAW BAY...6AM TO 6PM THURSDAY. LAKE ST CLAIR...GALE WARNING...6 AM THURSDAY TO 6 PM THURSDAY. MI WATERS OF LAKE ERIE...GALE WARNING...6 AM THURSDAY TO 6 PM THURSDAY. && SHORT TERM...SF LONG TERM....BGM AVIATION.....GSS YOU CAN OBTAIN YOUR LATEST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS ONLINE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/DETROIT (ALL LOWER CASE).
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 315 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2006 MIZ047>049-053>055-060>063-068>070-075-076-082-083-110845- MIDLAND-BAY-HURON-SAGINAW-TUSCOLA-SANILAC-SHIAWASSEE-GENESEE-LAPEER- ST. CLAIR-LIVINGSTON-OAKLAND-MACOMB-WASHTENAW-WAYNE-LENAWEE-MONROE- 315 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BECOME WIDESPREAD TONIGHT. HOWEVER...NONE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE FROM THE WESTERN OHIO VALLEY TO WESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN BY TOMORROW MORNING. AS THIS STORM MOVES TOWARD MICHIGAN...IT WILL RAPIDLY STRENGTHEN. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP...ESPECIALLY AFTER NIGHTFALL...IN RESPONSE TO THIS STRONG STORM SYSTEM. THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL TONIGHT. THE HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO LOCALIZED PONDING ON AREA ROADS. THUNDERSTORM THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WILL MOVE FROM SOUTH TO NORTH AT 25 TO 30 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL REACH ITS PEAK INTENSITY OVER WESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN ON THURSDAY. THIS WILL LEAD TO WINDY CONDITIONS AND POSSIBLY A WIND ADVISORY WITH WINDS SUSTAINED UP TO 30 MPH AND A FEW GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. THERE WILL ALSO BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... DISPATCHERS PLEASE NOTIFY YOUR EMERGENCY MANAGERS IMMEDIATELY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. LCZ422-423-460-LEZ444-LHZ421-422-441>443-462>464-110845- ST. CLAIR RIVER-DETROIT RIVER-LAKE ST. CLAIR- MICHIGAN WATERS OF LAKE ERIE-OUTER SAGINAW BAY-INNER SAGINAW BAY- PORT AUSTIN TO HARBOR BEACH MI-HARBOR BEACH TO PORT SANILAC MI- PORT SANILAC TO PORT HURON MI- LAKE HURON OFFSHORE BEYOND 5 NM FROM PORT AUSTIN TO HARBOR BEACH MI- LAKE HURON OFFSHORE BEYOND 5 NM FROM HARBOR BEACH TO PORT SANILAC MI- LAKE HURON OFFSHORE BEYOND 5 NM FROM PORT SANILAC TO PORT HURON MI- 315 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ST CLAIR...THE MICHIGAN WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AND LAKE HURON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT. HOWEVER...NONE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE FROM THE WESTERN OHIO VALLEY TO WESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN BY TOMORROW MORNING. AS THIS STORM MOVES TOWARD MICHIGAN...IT WILL RAPIDLY STRENGTHEN. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP...ESPECIALLY AFTER NIGHTFALL...IN RESPONSE TO THIS STRONG STORM SYSTEM. THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. ANY THUNDERSTORM THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WILL MOVE FROM SOUTH TO NORTH AT 25 TO 30 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL REACH ITS PEAK INTENSITY OVER WESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN ON THURSDAY. A GALE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR ENTIRE AREA ON THURSDAY. PLEASE REFER TO THE MARINE FORECASTS FOR DETAILS. THERE WILL ALSO BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. SF/RBP YOU CAN OBTAIN YOUR LATEST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS ONLINE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/DETROIT (ALL LOWER CASE).
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 9 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:43 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several large limbs 4 to 6 inches in diameter were blown down by downburst winds.
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