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There we go. Double click the button there. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome in. We have some breaking severe weather coverage for you guys this afternoon here on May 9th, 2026. Hopefully you guys can hear me all. First and foremost, hit that like button as we get started. We got a severe thunderstorm warning now in effect. It's our first of the afternoon here on May 9th and it is for Oakland County. We'll go ahead and read off the details first and foremost and quickly get into the radar because we can see a pocket of wind moving in right now. So, the National Weather Service in Detroit Pontiac has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for northern Oakland County in southeastern Michigan until 3:00. At 203, a severe thunderstorm was located over Holly, moving east at 40 miles per hour. Hazard is 60 mph wind gusts. Instead of hail, it is wind. It is radar indicated. Roof damage, siding damage, and tree damage is all possible with this thunderstorm.
This will be near Ortonville and Clarkston here in the next 5 minutes, give or take. Also have Pontiac and Oxford around 220 and Rochester around 230.
Other locations impacted by severe thunderstorm include Rochester Hills, Lakeville, Davisburg, Holly State Recreation Area, Leonard, Rose Center, Lake Oran, Auburn Hills, Lake Angel, Anggeles, and Waterford for protection moved to interior room on the Los Florida building. Again, it's 60 m per wind gust. And you can see exactly where that is located right now. It just passed through downtown Holly. Uh this pocket of wind here, we're showing you guys velocity radar right now.
And uh what we're looking at on velocity radar is where the greens are changing to our cyans, the blues. And again, that's where you start to see these 60 mile per winds. And the radar site is located right here in Clarkson. So this is very, very close to the radar. And you can see right here on uh Rattly Lake Road just to the north of Terrace Road.
Uh that is your pocket of wind right there. So it just passed through downtown Highlight. It's now about a mile, mile and a quarter to the southeast. And this is again clearing off to the southeast heading towards downtown Clarkston and eventually the radar site. Again, anywhere in this orange box is in that severe thunderstorm warning here as of 207 on May 9th. Again, make sure when you are watching this stream, make sure that time at the bottom of the screen is lined up with what the time is uh at your neck of the hoods.
Other than that though, we zoom out, take a look at our basic reflectivity.
We were watching the storm that was rolling through Jese County earlier. Uh this was producing a lot of hail across the Schwarz Creek, Flint and Burton areas tracking right down to 69. This is now through Leier and heading towards Inlay City. That is a cell that needs to be monitored here in the coming minutes for perhaps severe hail instead of severe wind. We take a look at the wind radar. We can kind of give you an idea that it is just a little bit less gusty there. Um on our velocity radar again, as the winds are moving away from the radar, they change from your greens to your reds. And so in this case, the wind direction is now away from the radar site located down here in Clarkson. Up here in I inlay city. And so in this case up here inlay city, we'd be looking for brighter reds changing over to our oranges and yellows. So that is what we're looking at right now. Lier County, but especially the severe thunderstorm warning for damaging winds potentially up to 60 mph moving in towards Clarkston and Waterford right now.
And again, time is 209 p.m. Also, a couple storms down the line here in Brighton and Pikney in Livingston County. Just pass through Howell. And these are growing upscale as well. These are also all located along a cold front this afternoon, which is going to continue to boost lift and help these storms continue to grow upscale in nature. And again, we do expect at least maybe one or two or maybe even three more severe thunderstorm warnings along this line as this line eventually moves in towards southwest Ontario. So if you know anyone downstream from this line of storms over here on the southeast side of the state, these are where these storms are heading next. So think Port Hiron all the way down here into the Mount Clemens area, Mcome County, downtown Detroit, all the way down towards Lenway, Monroe County. Once this line of storms does develop a little bit further south, uh those would be moving in towards there. But right now, the main concern is in northern Oakland County where we do have some severe winds moving in. And in fact, we do have a secondary cell now popping up with perhaps more of a hail risk here on the south side of our severe thunderstorm warning. Can usually tell by looking at correlation coefficient. However, I believe we're having a tough time kind of determining this uh because it is actually so close to the radar that we can't see the full picture of all of our elevation in the radar it or in the storm itself. Uh but again, we're looking for what would be some hints of yellows and perhaps even some greens in our correlation coefficient. And we can kind of see them right in here, right on the edge of the storm. Uh that would be where you have non-meological objects tumbling around the atmosphere. That would be hail.
Anything in blue here, that is called ground clutter. That is nothing to be concerned about. That's just because the radar is very sensitive right down at the surface and so it picks up on all the bugs and the birds and the vegetation out there today.
So again, this is been forecasted here since uh the start of the weekend, especially since in starting as early as Thursday uh for severe weather in southeast Michigan. Greens have come together. We have a lot of instability out there this afternoon. Very steep lapse rates. Again, we're looking at laps rates of 9° C per kilometer or greater. Uh to give you guys an idea of what that means, that is the change of temperature with height. So think of it is 70° Fahrenheit at the surface. You go up maybe a mile into the atmosphere and it is about 55° or something like that.
It's a rough estimate there of course, but again when you get that change in temperature with height very very rapidly, it cools down very very rapidly and all that cold air that is sitting in the updrafts of these thunderstorms allowing for storms to produce hail and some of it could be large in nature today. Again, the mess scale discussion from the storm prediction center does denote that hail could be as large as pingpong ball sized hail, which would be 1.75 in in diameter. So again, back on reflectivity radar here, which is the intensity of the rain that's falling.
You can see there's a lot of red and a lot of pink on this cell just south of Holly. Again, the wind is kind of all without this entire line of cells from Ortonville down here towards the Milford area inside of this orange box. But when we're looking at these reds and even these pinks, dark grays, and even blacks on the reflectivity radar, that is a sign that these rain droplets are very large. And again, when you get those very large rain droplets, it's really easy for those very large rain droplets become super cool in nature and eventually turn into hail. So, we have to watch this cell very, very closely as it moves towards downtown Clarkson for primarily right now the wind. But as you can see on base reflectivity radar, that's a lot of large rain droplets coming down directly on Ranch Road at Milford Road and that is going to continue to move off to the eastsoutheast. So again, Clarkston, Oxford, Lake Orient, Waterford, Rochester Hills, Auburn Hills, all inside of this orange polygon. That is your severe thunderstorm warning. If you're in southern Oakland County, good news for you guys. You're not in a severe thunderstorm warning yet. Uh but again, take note, this is in the vicinity of you guys. You should be on alert especially for the lightning aspect of these storms today. There's a lot of lightning as you can see in this cell particularly that just popped up in that Ranch Road area especially near Rose Center Road heading towards Clarkston. So whether or not you get severe out there today again we have a lot of instability out there as I mentioned. So that is your storm fuel component and with that storm fuel that we have out there today not only do we see a hail and a wind risk but of course frequent cloud to ground lightning which is nature's leading killer. So once you hear thunder, go indoors. Stay indoors.
Golden rule usually is wait 30 minutes until you last see lightning or hear thunder before resuming outdoor activities. And again, that info could be used wildly across anywhere you go in the United States. And again, it could help someone out. So keep that in the back of your head whether or not you are affected by storms today or not. 30 minutes after the last lightning strike or thunder rumble occurs is a good rule of thumb. We do have a radar update now.
Latest scan does move this cell or series of cells I should say very very close to the radar site. Uh very very actually I would say probably about 2 miles now from the radar site here heading right down Schaefer Road. Uh the pocket of wind now has been distributed to more of that southern cell which is kind of what we're watching here on radar. And again, Eagle Road right now at it's all Eagle Road here. Uh, Eagle Road at Ranch Road is the center of the cell at the current time and within a three square mile radius. That is your cell.
That is what we're watching moving in towards Clarkston right now on the severe thunderstorm warning. And again, if you know anyone downstream here in Clarkston, Lake Orian, Rochester Hills, good idea to send the stream over to them. Let them know we're going to be tracking this road by road as this cell moves through Oakland County. And we got you covered from beginning to end as always here at MSC. We'll be tracking these storms until they leave over into Canada. And once this cold front moves through, colder temperatures and some gusty winds are moving in. It won't be severe, of course, but again, it's just kind of a swap from what we've been experiencing so far today on this rather nice Saturday afternoon. But again, cold weather does return once this cold front moves through. And you can kind of kind of eyeball it here as I zoom out on radar where that cold front runs through. is primarily from the Hiron County area all the way down through Leier, Flint, uh through the Lancing area, Eaton. It's kind of actually where this uh pocket of showers is at. This pocket of showers behind this line, not really a concern, but that is where the cold front is at. These storms in front of the cold front are what we need to be watching for severe weather this afternoon.
I'm going to go ahead and pop in on our Stream Ops. There we go.
See Ryan's in the background today.
Uh, also I've been informed the warning has been upgraded.
So that is now for 1inch hail as well, which is a good uh indicator there. Good job by the National Weather Service to kind of add that to the text. So, it is now 60 mph winds and 1 in hail possible with the severe thunderstorm warning. As a reminder, that is the bare minimum for severe thunderstorm warning to be issued. If you get below 1 in, that's strong hail, but not severe. Uh, if you get below 60 mph winds, that is strong winds, not severe wind. So, these are both this is severe now for both hail and wind. If you're just tuning in, and if you know anybody in northern Oakland County, this is heading their way. Uh, long term, this would be heading towards Mcome County eventually as this cell continues on. And we're probably going to see these cells kind of blossom up and down throughout the afternoon.
So the main cell right now may be in Oakland County, but as you can see, there's a multitude of cells popping up all the way down through southeastern Livingston, northern Washington. And we do expect some development down here in Jackson County along the southern flank of this line. And that could produce some strong severe weather as it moves in towards downtown Detroit. So southern Oakland County, Wayne, Washington, even towards Monroe County with time.
current time right now at 12:17.
Getting a lot of lightning out there today. We have a severe thundtorm warning in effect for northern Oakland.
And this severe thunderstorm warning is in effect until 300 p.m. against 1 in hail, 60 mph winds. and it is moving off to the east at around 45 miles per hour.
So, it's a decent clip. We should still have time to take shelter if you are in this path of this severe thunderstorm.
Should be taking shelter away from any exterior walls. That way, uh wind driven hail or wind in general does not bring down trees and hailstones uh through your windows or exterior walls, of course, if possible. And then if you do need to relocate to shelter, now is a good time to do so. Again, it's hail and wind at the current time. core of the storm right now on Schaefer Road still at Hillsboro Road and again heading towards Crosby Lake Road right now and this is very very close to the National Weather Service office here in Clarkston. In fact, we're going to probably see this storm move directly over the radar which does prompt its own issues here in terms of hopefully the radar doesn't get struck by lightning that could cause it to go down. The wind could also take out the power. There's a multitude of factors here that could result in us losing our radar data in just a moment. But again, if you are in Clarkston or Waterford downstream towards Auburn Hills, this is heading straight for you guys right now in the next 10 to 15 minutes. Current time, of course, 12 or 2:18 in the afternoon.
This is the only severe thunderstorm warning in the state. If you are behind this line of storms off to the west, you guys are in the clear for tonight. Some showers and thunderstorms are still possible this evening, but at the current time, we do not expect those to be severe.
To the north, a lot of lightning up here, St. Clair, Selac counties. These storms are not severe. However, I would not be surprised if there is producing some P-sized hail. Specifically, if I pause the radar here, there's a couple cells that kind of bring my attention here. I've got Port Santelac. That is one cell that could be producing some P-sized tail. Also down here, the cell that was in Leier County has now moved over into St. Clair County now heading towards Yale. So, in the vicinity of Collins Road, uh Kack and Emily City right now. That could also be another cell producing some P-sized hail. Again, Psize hail is not severe in nature, but it is strong hail technically speaking because they will issue special weather statements for it.
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cell now is over the radar site. In fact, we have lightning striking down within meters of the radar site. Very, very close to the tower there at the current time.
I'm going go see I'm go ahead and see if we have any of our chasers live right now.
It's going to c it's going to have me uh move some things around behind the scenes here.
just to make sure the whole process. Give me just a second.
We do have Mike in there. Okay, we'll put Mike live and we'll have Tyler as I think Tyler's going to be out there as well at some point, but at the current time he is not. So, we do have Mike out there right now. He get his cam up is in Tacumpsy. Look like he's on M52 there. Kind of waiting.
No views of the storms at the current time, but we'll have we'll have his cam up in the top right corner of the screen in case something does appear.
So, while we wait for the storm to go over the radar, again, Clarkston, Waterford, this is heading into your neck of the woods right now or within the next 2 to 3 minutes. Downtown Pontiac may be clipped by this severe thunderstorm warning. In fact, you can see the orange box right now. It clips portions of northern downtown Pontiac, but not central and southern. The orange box is very uh very wellrounded here in terms of where the storm is actually going to track. So, if you're south of this orange box, you're not technically in that severe thunderstorm warning as I alluded to here here earlier in the stream, but you should be on alert because this whole line of storms is producing hail today, gusty winds, and of course, frequent cloud to ground lightning.
Let's go ahead and loop this whole line of storms through for you guys. Overall, it's going to be a low risk day, so not a whole lot to worry about. Just make sure to take shelter when these storms do impact your area. It's primarily just a hail and wind risk today. Chances of tornadoes are 1% or less. So, we are here tracking these storms as they move through southeast Michigan. And it's a southeast Michigan only event this afternoon and we should clear out by the time sunset comes around tonight. Some of you guys may get a get a good sunset especially back far and beyond the cold front. So think west Michigan, northwest Michigan, even the up could see a couple showers and storms later tonight but mixed in with a decent sunset out there.
And that is what we're watching at the current time.
Severe storm warning has been trimmed.
So, good news for Holly and technically Ortonville kind of sort of. You're outside of that orange box.
Ortonville, you are technically still in it, but the storm is completely beyond you guys right now. So, you guys are in the all clear in Ortonville.
Uh, obviously, Jennese County is not no longer being affected by any storms at all. So, you guys are good back there as well. But, this severe thunderstorm warning does continue. And it does say 60 mile per hour winds and penny size tail has been downgraded again. I think looking at the update here, the 224 up 2.22 update says yeah, it's back down to penny sized hail. So they've dropped the hail size back down to 75 inches in diameter. However, the 60 mph wind gusts do remain.
So, this is very quickly approaching the M24 corridor. It already is in Oxford, but Lake Orian down to Pontiac and Auburn Hills is up next. You guys have a little bit of time to get to shelter. If you have any outdoor events, especially now is that time. time. Again, if you're in that orange box, you should be taking this quite seriously because again, severe thunderstorm is a severe thunderstorm. Whether it's hail, wind, or lightning, it will cause damage. So again, if you are in this orange box you see on your screen in northern Oakland County, especially northeastern Oakland County, now is your time to be taking shelter. the center of this core. And you can see this guys for yourself. That is a lot of lightning popping up on radar to the point where it's almost shielding what you can see in terms of our reflectivity radar uh right here in downtown Clarkston.
And again, this is directly on US 24 at the current time. So, it's also tracking straight down I75 as well. Uh so again, if you are being impacted by wind or hail on any roadway, make sure to pull off the roadway as far as possible. And of course, protect your head or eyes from any sort of flying debris or of course hail breaking uh windows or windshields at at this current time.
wind is now over the radar. We still have our radar up. So, good news there.
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No. Okay.
These winds right now look to be at least subsever for the time being.
There are a couple pockets in here of 45 to 50 mph wind still showing up on reflectivity or on our velocity radar, excuse me, uh for this storm. Also getting a bunch of comments behind the scenes saying that the notifications were not pushed for YouTube. So, if you know someone that frequently watches on YouTube that is in this severe thunderstorm warning area, it appears that YouTube did not push notifications for this live stream. Uh, so again, if you know anyone right now that watches on YouTube only, now's a good time to tell them and remind them that we are live here tracking the severe thunderstorm warning in northeastern Oakland County, specifically Clarkston down to Pontiac heading towards Rochester Hills, Auburn Hills, and Rochester.
You see how this these storms evolved this afternoon. It was a couple different cells that I keep popping up and down. When these storms do pop up and down, especially quite quickly, we can see those downdraft winds come out of a thunderstorm. Basically, the thunderstorm is collapsing in on itself and all of that air and rain all has to come crashing down at some point. And so when it does, we do see what are called down bursts, isolated pockets of damaging winds that kind of spread out in all directions. And so specifically when they issued this severe thunderstorm warning, it was directly over Holly and it has since moved off to the south a little bit and kind of transitioned itself to the cell that popped up in tow on the south side of the severe thunderstorm warning which is in Clarkston right now that we are currently tracking.
back to that notification thing. I will say this, it did show that we went live on Twitch as well or it said we went live on Twitch just not YouTube. So again, a good good reminder for everyone that is watching out here have multiple ways to receive warning whether that's through us or just in general wherever you go. So that means you know apps on your phone um text message alerts uh Midland weather radios of course and of course here at MSC we have multiple platforms that we are live on. Multiple of them do push notifications when we are live. So in this specific example here we are live on YouTube right now.
It just for some reason the platform decided we're going to take the day off and not push a notification but it did push the notification on Twitch. So again, Twitch is a platform that not many people know about. It's actually pretty nice to use there. And you can actually see at the bottom of the screen, it actually just popped up.
Perfect timing. Our Twitch handle is MIT Stormchasers if you guys would like to give that a try at some point uh for your viewing experience. And of course, as mentioned, that does push notifications.
Current time right now is 2:30 on the nose. Again, I am chief meteorologist Joel Fritzma here live with you guys until this line of storms is no longer severe. At the current time, we are not close to that being a reality, but these storms are quickly moving off to the east at 45 miles hour.
So, if all things go well, we should be done within the next 2 hours, hopefully at most, and then we can have a great rest of our Saturday evening. But again, for the time being here this afternoon, we got a lot of instability out there, a lot of steep lapse rates, as I mentioned at the beginning of the stream. So, hail is the primary concern. And anytime these thunderstorms do collapse down, gusty winds of 60 mph cannot be ruled out. We'll go ahead and zoom back in on our storm now that is now through downtown Clarkston.
And this is heading off between Lake Oran and Auburn Hills here very, very shortly. In fact, I can actually pull up see if this is camera is actually live right now.
Oh, perfect.
We can actually view this storm on our weather camera network. Give me one second to get this in for you guys.
There we go. So, there is our Lake Oran cam. This is courtesy of Stormguard Roofing and Construction, also known as uh Stormguard Metro Detroit North. They cover Mcome Oakland, Washington counties for all of your roofing needs. They have this camera on top of their headquarters in Lake Oran. And that is a gorgeous looking, we call it a whales mouth where it looks very bumpy. Kind of looks like the inside of a whale's mouth here on the storm. And of course, you can see the rain core on the right side of the screen where it gets kind of wispy and lighter in nature. So again, thank you to StormGuard Metro Detroit North for sponsoring this camera as this line of storms does move into their neck of the woods. And again, this is looking off to the southwest, so it's looking straight down that line of storms as it moves in.
And uh not sure if we have any cameras quite closer to the storm, but again, this is going to give us a good idea of just how intense the winds may be and of course the hail that would be falling uh as if this core does move more into the Lake Oran area versus the Auburn Hills area.
So, I'll keep an eye on this. I'll go back to the radar for the time being.
I'll keep an eye on it on my other monitor over here as this line storms does move in. There's your radar update.
They are continuing to trim that severe thunderstorm warning box back. You can see that orange line continues to bump, bump, and bump off to the east. So, Ortonville is now squarely not in the severe thunderstorm warning anymore. And the radar site in portions of the west side of Clarkson are also no longer in the severe thunderstorm warning. It does continue downstream for Auburn Hills, Rochester Hills, Lake Oran, and Leonard in northeastern Oakland County.
Hail core right now if there is going to be hail is directly over the Baldwin road area at Judah road specifically the darkest of the pixels here where you see this black and dark gray on your screen that is 66 dBz which is very large rain droplets directly on Gregory Gregory and hidden in timber off of Baldwin and so again this is going to continue off towards the jaws road area and straight down Silverbell Road in the times or in the minutes to come here within the next probably 5 minutes or less as it approaches quickly appear road.
So, what I'm showing you guys right now are the bunch of different radar products we use here at MSC. So, first and foremost, the radar app that I'm using is actually something that is PC only. It's very expensive, but if you guys would like to purchase it for yourselves, again, it is called GR2 Analyst. And again, this is how you can see all of this different radar data that we show you guys from wind to hail uh to the tops of storms. You name it, it's got everything. But very expensive.
That is something you guys would like to purchase. But right now, we are showing you guys all of these radar products ourselves so that you don't have to. And in this case right now, I'm going to go ahead and line up the storm as it's now moved into the Giddings Road area. We got our CC radar. So, this is now the CC radar I'm showing you guys. Once again, anywhere you see these reds on radar, that is going to be your uniformality of raindrops or just liquid in the atmosphere in general. So the more circular it is, the redder and the pinker it will become. If it is more jagged in nature, but it's still meteorological in sense, then it's going to be labeled as kind of these yellow and these green pixels. So specifically, we think of hail is jagged in nature, and that is what we're seeing out there today in some of these storms. There's not a whole lot mixing in here, but that again is because we are so close to the radar site, and there's a lot of different things kind of getting mixed in with the storm right now. as well. We also use this radar to look at debris if there was debris in a storm. Obviously, today we don't expect tornadoes. We're not expecting tornadoes specifically with this storm. But again, it's so close to the radar right now that this radar is very sensitive. It's picking up on everything that is around the radar site that is flying around. So, think planes, birds, you got bugs, and sometimes with the uh bending of the beam a little bit, it can pick up on some low-level vegetation, which would also be picked up as blue on radar. So, that's why you can see all this blue around the reds and it's making very difficult to kind of determine whether or not the hail is falling in here.
Another product that we can use is called our vertically integrated liquid product which kind of just centers where exactly that hail core would be centerized and that is directly on this is a little bit outdated. Baldwin Road.
Uh there's your latest update. I was waiting for that to come in. It has now moved off towards Brown Road. There's a one little pixel here on Jam Road and Brown Road. We can look at our probability of severe hail and it is at 0%. So, good news here. This storm does appear to be weakening. And another radar product I'll bring up to for you guys here is ZDR, which kind of shows us the buoyancy of a thunderstorm. So, it's pretty neat to look at to see what storms are growing upscale and which storms may be falling apart. So, in this specific radar, you guys are learning with me here. This specific radar where it shows the hotter colors, that means this storm is well, it's becoming stronger in nature. The updraft is more positively buoyant, so it's lifting up.
Anything that is more on the cooler side of the colors, even down towards dark grays, that is a collapsing thunderstorm. And so, right now, we can see the storm is still kind of neutally to positively buoyant as it's now approaching and passing over M24.
We'll have to watch this in the minutes to come to see if that becomes neutral to negatively buoyant.
So, there's your crash course on all the different radar products we can use here to figure out what exactly is happening in what location.
And we do have other cells starting to pop up a little bit ahead of this initial line. You can see down here in the milein to Ipsani and Belleville.
Couple showers popping up. We'll have to keep an eye on these cells as they are also in a warm unstable environment.
Also this cell here in the St. Clair area heading up right up I94 towards Mary'sville. And of course a cell that just popped up over Port Hiron. All these cells could be be could become a wishbone shaped line here where you have two lines that are very close in proximity with a northern point where they kind of meet. So we'll keep an eye on this line. Could have two lines of severe hail and wind as this moves into the Detroit area.
It does appear that wind is still our main factor though. We got 52 mile per hour pixel right now on uh Tanken Road.
That might be I'm probably pronouncing that incorrectly. I do apologize. We got North Adams Road as well.
near Shannondoa Drive as well. So, a couple different actually a bunch of different neighborhoods in this area just to the west of Rochester and Rochester Hills.
And again, this wind is going to continue off to Mcome County here very soon. We would expect some sort of statement or maybe an additional warning to be issued within the next five minutes just based on storm motion at 45 miles per hour off to the east.
A cell up here near Burville has also upticked in lightning. And when we usually see an uptick in lightning, that can also be a sign of a strengthening storm besides that ZDR radar that we showed you guys. And this cell would be continuing off towards the Burville and Memphis area, specifically towards the M19 corridor south of EMTT within the next 10 to 15 minutes. So keep an eye on that cell. It does look like it's kind of growing upscale in nature a little bit. In fact, a lot of these cells on the northern prefacy of this line are growing upscale in nature. A lot of lightning and perhaps some P-sized tail involved, but at the current time, no severe warnings, so that's good.
The only one that is in effect uh within the vicinity is down here in northeast Oakland is specifically this cell that is now over M24.
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cell now down to the south in South Line and Wixom. Also starting to pick up its intensity just a tad. This would be heading towards Novi and Farmington Hills. This would be southern Oakland County eventually heading into northern Wayne County. So if you are in northern Wayne in southern Oakland County right now, be prepared to be taking shelter, especially if you have outdoor plans. If you don't get a severe storm, it is still a thunderstorm with a lot of cloud to ground lightning. So you should be taking shelter. If you hear thunder, you are technically close enough to be struck by lightning.
Hopefully everyone's been having a great Saturday afternoon so far. Let us know in chat what you guys have been up to in terms of taking advantage of this nicer weather. And of course, we do have colder weather moving in. So, take advantage of it while you have it.
We should see a cold weather move back in for at least the next seven days. We do have frost advisories and freeze warnings coming in later tonight across primarily northern Michigan, but we do expect some colder temperatures into the mid to upper 30s to make it all the way down to the 94 corridor tonight. So, if you have plants that are especially sensitive to any temperatures in the 30s at all, you should be covering them up tonight, no matter where you're at in Michigan.
I feel like every scan that comes in, the lightning just keeps getting more and more intense. And I see a couple comments in chat here saying the thunder now is is continuous in nature. So, doesn't shock me one bit. It is as we go throughout the afternoon hours, especially when we hit that peak heating time frame. It's usually about 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the afternoon when it's the hottest outside. It's the most unstable.
That's a lot more fuel available for these storms to kind of tap into and enrich themselves. And so we're seeing that play out firsthand right now with this line of strong severe storms is moving through southeast Michigan. And that is why I do expect at least another severe thunderstorm warning or two to perhaps pop up within this line. If not, couple more statements before this line is completely out of the state.
The instability to give you guys a kind of like a cheat code behind the scenes here. The instability values across southeast Michigan right now are kind of lackluster in comparison to what the models had here. Uh surface base cape.
We're looking for values and they're they're in jewels per kilogram by the way. It's measurement of energy. We're looking for values of 750 jewels per kilogram or greater usually for severe weather. And they're they're struggling to make the bare minimum for severe weather to occur. So, uh, good news is these storms are a little bit weaker than what the models have been showing so far. And so, we hope and pray that this continues to stay that way and perhaps we can get through the rest of this live stream without any additional severe thunderstorm warnings. But if they are going to issue a new severe storm warning, it's likely going to be for one of these strengthening cells.
Again, we're watching cell number one up here in the Memphis area, cell number two that is currently warned in the Rochester area, and cell number three, which has now picked up a hail core in the Novi area. You can see that in our VIL product, as mentioned again, that's on Wixom Road right now near 11 mile. So about 3 miles to the west of Novi heading towards that 696 I 96 interchange.
So that's an if big if statement. If we get another warning, it's going to be probably St. Clair, Mcome or southern Oakland County within the next 10 minutes. But these cells do look pretty lackluster in nature right now. Just given the fact that I'm seeing behind the scenes a lot of our ingredients are at the bare minimum right now for severe weather to be occurring.
So, everyone take a nice deep breath. We got this.
If you're in a orange box, that is a severe thunderstorm warning. You should be taking shelter. As long as you know where your safe place is at, you guys are going to be a okay.
Yes, these storms are moving fast. 45 mph. I mentioned here at about 230, so about 15 minutes ago, we should be done within the next two hours. Right now, it would be that within the next hour and 45.
and it's it's moving pretty quick. We just have to watch the southern end of this line of storms. So, for Hillsdale, Lenoway, and Monroe counties, uh we could see a couple storms start to fill in down here closer to that 3 to 4:00 time frame. But other than that, this northern half is moving towards Ontario, Canada very, very quickly. Uh but again, if you know anyone over in Ontario, Canada, especially southwest Ontario, also a good idea to let them know that storms are on their way.
That latest cell, that prefrontal cell as we call it, has really started to blossom here in the St. Clair and Mary'sville area. But this will be out of the US in the next five minutes.
Specifically right now, we got Davis Road at Range Road that we're watching about a mile and a half south of Mary'sville heading into Mary'sville right now. St. Clair just getting brushed by. Just keep an eye out there for some P-sized tails. Same thing here in the Burville area. Same thing up there just south of Aoka and also up there towards Lakeport. Got a couple strong storms now on Lake here and those are not of concern to Michigan. And of course, we're watching our previously severe thunderstorm warned storm for Oakland County that is no longer severe thunderstorm warned heading in towards the Shelby and Romeo area. Farmington Hills, Novi, as I mentioned, that's number one down there. And of course, South Lion and Warden, another cell that needs to be watched. Other than that, we have a bunch of showers and thunderstorms a little bit further south. Another cell also popping up in Warren.
So, as I mentioned, it's kind of making that wishbone shape. We got those two lines very, very close together and eventually they meet at that one point on the northern end. So, it looks like a upside down Y, but more importantly, it kind of looks like a wishbone there in southeast Michigan. Any one of these storms could become severe any time.
Anything that's off to the west of this line, however, that's kind of these dryish showers out there. In fact, it is drying up behind this cold front uh as these due points these due points drop off very considerably in the vicinity of the cold front. So, these showers that you see on radar are fairly elevated in nature right now. Not expected to be severe, not expected to turn into severe weather. It's primarily this lead line down here in southeast Michigan. We got a replacement special weather statement coming in.
Uh we got bunch of counties in this one. I'll go ahead and read off the details behind the scenes. They are going to issue this for southern St. Clair, all of Mcome and the southeast corner of Oakland counties. This is in effect till 3:45 p.m. for 50 mile perph winds and half inch hail possible. So very close to severe limits still at this current time, but they are going to go with a statement which is basically for a lack of better words like the JV version of a severe thunderstorm warning. It's for strong storms, not severe. So keep that in mind. It's still strong storm. It should be taking shelter until the storm passes, but it is not technically by standard a severe thunderstorm.
So good news. But if you are in Oakland, Mcome, St. Clair, the special weather statement is now in effect for you guys.
You should be taking shelter until this line of storms passes.
Uh we do have a report now of 1-in hill sourced via trained spotter in Clarkston. So that does verify the severe thunderstorm warning that did occur. So 1-in hail did fall in Clarkson, Oakland County this afternoon in that severe thunderstorm warning.
If you guys have any hail reports to send in to us, make sure to do so with a time, a location specifically. Uh, also, if you are measuring hail, please, please, please make sure to do so with a coin next to the hail or a ruler.
Obviously, the ruler is going to be your best source of measurement. Uh, but again, if you have a coin on you, that's also a good source of measurement. Or some sort of sports ball. So like a golf ball, ping- pong ball, a tennis ball, something that's relative in size that is uniform in nature for your measurements. That can also go the same for if you have any wind damage out there, any tree damage, time, location, and basically what you're seeing out there. Um, if you can eyeball the estimate of the diameter of tree branches that are falling, go for it.
But again, any pictures are helpful. You can do so by sending that in via uh our Facebook community group, Michigan weather reports. Uh that it can be searched on the search bar on Facebook. We also have our messenger open. Please keep our messenger to damage reports only or hail reports only. Uh especi especially if it's severe hail in nature 1 inch in diameter.
Um otherwise of course as always we have a Discord server open for you guys to join. It is discord.gg/mantormchasers.
Just type that out and it should pop in for you guys to join. Just make sure when you do join to follow the instructional rules so you don't get accidentally kicked in the next cleaning of our members. And again, that is our Discord server, discord.ggman stormchasers. We do have a new warning popping in, but is not for land. It is for the water. That blue rectangle that you see all up and down the Detroit River and through Lake St. clear up all the way to Port Hiron is a special marine warning. So, what that is is essentially a severe thunderstorm warning, but for the waters. So, if you're out on the waters right now in a boat, especially a small craft, you should be taking shelter at harbor until this line of storms passes. This is for 40 knots of wind and small hail up and down this line.
And it actually does list cities that this line of storms is going to be towards in the actual special marine warning. So I can kind of read this off for you guys. Port Hiron is going to be 255. So now or in the next 5 minutes.
New Baltimore around 3. St. Clair 305.
St. Clair Shores 310.
M Clemens Harbor of Refuge in Metro Beach Metrop Park Marina 315.
Elgenax St. Claire Flats, Old Channel Light, the Ambassador Bridge, Gross Point, Bell Isle, Wandot around 325, Jialter 335 and Elizabeth Park Marina and Gross Eel, sorry around 340.
Other locations impacted by strong thunderstorms includes Jialter which is already mentioned in this text. So, uh that is your special marine warning in that blue box there for our Boers and some cities are actually mentioned in that special marine warning too. was able to uh kind of give you guys some notice for those lakeshore areas.
If there's any wind right now, especially 50 m per hour, nature is going to be heading right down 24 mile road just just crossing over Parkdale.
Again, we're looking at our velocity radar here for the brighter reds changing to oranges and yellows. Uh it kind of looks like the same shade of orange as well and orange as it moves across the radar. And so Utica and Shelby in Mcome County, that is where the strongest of the winds will likely be. And would not be surprised if they issue a short-term severe thunderstorm warning for that little pocket that is popping in. Now, however, I will say this. As this line of storms does move away from the radar, remember that beam from the radar is consistently going up into the atmosphere. So, it starts at 100 ft off the ground. You get out towards Mcome County and you can I can read it with my mouse here. It's at this storm specifically about about 1,000 feet off the ground. So, the lowest elevation of that beam is now at 1,000 ft off the ground. And so if you think about it, anything below 1,000 ft at that spot in Mcome County, we can't see on radar because the beam is well simply overshooting it. So anything above 1 th00and feet we can see. And so in some cases we do have, you know, low-level wind out there today that is showing up in the about half a mile up in the atmosphere, but it may not be mixing completely to the ground. So the radar will show these strong winds. as you get further away from the radar. But just note that as you get further away from the radar, it's showing higher and higher into the storm.
Lot of lightning out there though. Any of these cells producing hail and lightning are dangerous. Of course, thunder roars, head indoors. Make sure you do so until the storm passes.
Again, it's like I say, it's not like baseball. You get three strikes and you're out. If you're struck by lightning, it's one strike and you're out. Unless you're one of the rare people that have survived lightning, which has happened before. But again, lightning strikes and that temperature from lightning is 50,000 degrees plus all of that voltage that you receive from an electric spark. It's not a good sign. So again, take lightning safety very seriously. Even if you're not in a severe thunderstorm warning this afternoon, there's a lot of instability still out there for cloud to ground lightning to occur.
The most of the lightning right now is actually in the northern half of the storm. There's a bunch of different cells here. Gardale to Mary'sville all the way back towards Memphis and our uh the Richmond area. So in between 69 and 94, the most lightning that we're seeing here is in St. Clair County.
Still a lot of lightning though in Mcome County at the current time. I'm going to go ahead and pause radar so we can kind of catch up with all of these cells.
Also a lot of lightning perhaps some small hail in the Farmington Hills area.
This is still tracking down I69 towards Southfield eventually.
And of course you do have a lot of different cells popping up in the vicinity of Dearbornne, Detroit, Hammock and St. Clair Shores.
Still waiting to see if there's any southern development on the in the area down towards Lenway and Hillsdale County. If not, Lenway and Hillsdale and Monroe may get out of this uh scratchfree for severe weather today.
time now is 2:55.
Bottom of the screen, the highest active alert out there is a special weather statement. There's one in effect, of course, for the severe weather, but there is also a special weather statement in effect for the dry air moving in behind the cold front today.
That is for all of northern lower Michigan where they do have fire weather possible up there in the northern lower peninsula. And that is when you have humidity values that are around 25% or lower. And that is due to the fact we have due points, excuse me, due points that are really really low coupled with that fuel for which is the wind. So again, wind and dry air is not a good combination. Those wind gusts today behind the cold front could be as high as 35 miles per hour.
would not rule out a couple instances of 40 mile per hour winds as well. But for the most part, gusts today 30 to 35 miles per hour behind the cold front coupled with that very dry air. And that dry air will turn into cold air later tonight. So, as a reminder, we do have freeze warnings and frost advisories scrolling at the bottom of the screen here as well. So, fire weather, freeze weather, and of course, severe weather all occurring here today in the state of Michigan. This is kind of a walk in the park compared to what we saw a couple days ago. But again, we got a little bit of everything going on today with the passing of this cold front.
I' say if you know anybody in Mcome County, feel free to shoot them a text, let them know. Again, that's a pretty strong storm moving through. Also in St. Clair County, a lot of lightning moving in. Uh if you are your family's designated weatherman by default, again, you know what to do. Let them know.
Lightning heading their way. Also, small hail and some gusty winds of 50 miles per hour.
see a report here in chat. Penny sized hail at Farmington Hills High School. Thank you for the report there. If you guys have any pictures, again, send those in to us. That way we can relay them over the National Weather Service office and uh get perhaps a new warning issued uh if that is the case where it gets to perhaps one inch in diameter. So, everything does help here at MSC. We do have our staff on call behind the scenes.
Also noticing this on the meter station at DTX. So the uh air not the airport, sorry, the radar station, it gusted to 46 miles per hour officially and that was as of 230 when that storm was kind of in the vicinity there. So pretty strong winds on top of the fact they did have 1in hail near Clarkston.
And this is just wind that will continue off towards Mcome, St. Clair, Wayne, and Monroe counties within the next hour.
No severe thunderstorm warnings in effect right now. For those who are just tuning in and wondering why we're live, uh we did go live for a severe thundtorm warning that was in effect. You can see the orange box on the screen that has now disappeared. It is no longer in effect, but you can see it looping through just how long it was in effect for. And it was really about oh, a half hour, give or take. Again, we've been live for 53 minutes now. And so, we're kind of just waiting to see how this line progresses as it moves very close to Ontario, Canada.
Also, speaking of behind the scenes, you guys have any damage from today, especially uh if it's like flooding, uh storm damage, tree removal needs, anything you guys need, we got a bunch of services here at Michigan Stormchasers for you guys to kind of tap into. Um again, we've vetted and l made sure these companies are licensed and insured for you guys' safety. Uh so any time you see these uh trusted partners scrolling below me at the bottom of the screen, again, those are our trusted partners that we have a partnership with here at MSC that you guys can reach out to at any point. So again, all that info down here at the bottom of the screen, you'll see it scrolling through uh is useful. Otherwise, if you guys don't know who to turn to, our staff is on call behind the scenes to kind of point you in the right direction. So again, we're here for you guys both during the storm and after the storm uh for your restoration, storm cleanup needs, and of course to make sure you guys are safe when the storms are moving through.
Right now, St. Clair County, southern and central St. Clair County getting hit the hardest in terms of our rain, lightning, and perhaps some P-sized tail and of course those 50 mph winds. In addition, we do have Mcome County here, central Mcome County heading towards New Baltimore and New Haven also getting in on the action there for the lightning, hail, and wind.
Further south, we did have that cell in the Farmington Hills area that is still continuing through the area. And as we mentioned, as someone mentioned here in chat, some penny sized hill moving in, but the storm is very, very small and very localized to Farmington Hills and Southfield. So, it's not affecting too many people at the current time. Obviously, a lot of people that live in this area. So, if you know you live along 696, this line of storms is heading right down the highway and heading towards Royal Oak and Clawson.
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Oops, I sped up the radar so it was light speed for a second. Hopefully, you guys didn't get uh blurry eyed from that.
That was really, really quick.
This line is growing upscale in nature.
So, it's going to fill in and become just a full line of storms that is less cells and more just kind of the squall as it moves into the Ontario region. And quite impressive on Lake Hiron right now. If you know anyone over there in Ontario, that's probably going to produce their own severe weather uh within the next half hour to an hour.
We're we're very close, guys. We're we're cooking right now. But I do see this. Our latest couple scans here are finally starting to pick up on growth of the southern flank of this line. So south of Jackson, primarily popping up along that US12 corridor. So from Sturgis to Cold Water and points to the east. So that would include Hillsdale and eventually heading towards Adrian.
We'll have to watch these cells as they pop up. They may go quickly, especially since all of our instability is further south. And again, this is the best area where over a thousand jewels per kilogram of instability is available.
Remember, that magic number is usually around 750. So, it is severe amounts of instability down here that is kind of just waiting to be used along and south of US12. And we're starting to see that start we're starting to see that right now as all of these cells are lining up in secession across the US 12 corridor.
So, we'll stay live till until these storms are through the state despite the fact that severe weather is not occurring.
Again, we're likely probably your only source that is currently live right now for severe weather in the state of Michigan. Again, we do this all the time. If you're new here, we understand there's always new faces watching our streams here at MSC. So, first and foremost, I humbly welcome you guys to our channel. Again, we do this 365 days a year. Whether it's severe weather, winter weather, uh you name it, we're covering it. And specifically for severe weather, I did the math the other day.
We have covered the last with this severe thunderstorm warning today, the last 818 severe thunderstorm warnings or tornado warnings in a row dating back through late 2023. Everywhere in Michigan, no matter where a warning has been issued, we've been live covering it from beginning to end. And so our policy is beginning to end. First warning to last warning. However, as you can see on the screen, there are no warnings right now. We're just making sure that no warnings do pop up. It's also easier for us to kind of stay live and instead of, you know, going off live and then setting up a secondary stream. The only positive to that though today, of course, is if we did start a second stream, it would maybe push a YouTube notification this time. Not going to take those chances. So, we're going to stay live here until this line does make it through the state. This cell is actually starting to get its act together now as it moves towards Lake St. Clair, New Baltimore area.
a lot of lightning and uh hotter hues starting to pop up once again, but again, it's not near severe yet. Still some 50 mph winds mixing in. Perhaps some half-inch hail.
We'll keep an eye on it, but at the current time, not severe. Same thing goes for the storm that is now in the Birmingham and Southfield area. These are really the two main cells spy uh besides this complex that is now in the Mary'sville and Port Heron area where those two lines of storms meet that edge of that wishbone there in the Sarnia and Port Hiron area.
Yeah, check out those cells down here in uh southern Michigan.
They may look like tiny little blips now, but just you wait about 10 or 15 minutes from now, these storms will or these showers will probably turn into full-fledged thunderstorms. So, this is kind of your early heads up. If you are down here in Hillsdale, Lenway, and Monroe counties specifically, um you can see an uptick in thunder and lightning here very very quickly. Kind of out of the blue with how much instability is out there this afternoon for at least, you know, your thunderstorms. But as I mentioned here, this atmosphere today is kind of not been living up to its fruition, which is a good sign. So models had about 1,00 to 1250 in terms of our jewels per kilogram of instability. And the only point we see over a thousand right now is right where these storms are popping up. Every other storm that's popped up today. Uh and Wayne County points north is all sitting in a reservoir of 750. That magic number I keep mentioning. 750 and less of instability. So goes to show you what 750 does. We got one severe thunderstorm warning out of it. We're again we're curious to see what this line does down here along and south of US 12.
As chat says, it is kind of meh out there right now. It absolutely is.
P size Hail and Sarnia, thank you for the report, Jeff.
Also, if you guys are trying to send pictures in chat, we can't see those on our backend stuff. Uh you guys would have to post any hail reports or wind damage reports in a different thread if you guys are on Facebook. So keep that in mind. Anytime you are watching our streams, we can't see any photos that you post here in this live stream thread.
Low temperatures tonight in the low 40s to upper 30s for southeast Michigan. Not expected to be uh freeze warning criteria. very close to frost advisory, but as I was mentioning earlier here in the stream, if you got any plants tonight that are very sensitive to just temperatures in the 30s in general, it's a good idea to cover up tonight. Might have some surprising frost in lowlying areas, especially.
Again, our models only show areawide coverage. If you know you live in a lowlying area, especially, you should be prepared for temperatures that are actually closer to freezing than actually modeled. So, keep that in mind.
Right now, current current threat is the severe weather that we're tracking across southeast Michigan. We have a couple cells, Wayne, southeastern Oakland and Mcome, even up here into the Mary'sville and Port Hiron area in St. Clair County.
Yes, the uh when I zoom out, you can see that it's every single road in Wayne County. So, if I zoom in, it's not a problem. But if you zoom out, all of those little black lines you see on there are all individual roads. And so when you zoom out to a point where it's uh, you know, about this far out, it's almost hard to see the radar at that point. So we got to zoom in to kind of see the rain in Wayne County as it moves through, as well as the wind, of course, too. Um, in terms of wind, I am watching this cell. I don't think that's anything concerning.
It shouldn't be, but there is a little bit of a surge of wind in the Royal Oak area. Just a very, very subtle shift or shift. Very subtle shift in wind heading into the Royal Oak heading towards Warren right down 696. You can kind of see that with a little Boeing segment here. You kind of see how that kind of curves in on itself. Uh that could be a little bit of gusty winds moving forward. You also have this whole mess of wind up here where it's brighter in the Sterling Heights and Katy area and that is well lined up with that special weather statement is in effect at the current time.
To be fair, Colin, I didn't finish my sentence.
I said hi.
I didn't I I said I did not say the last letter and I was trying to say shift then go back and clip it.
Shift storing heights though. Let us know what you guys are seeing in terms of wind.
Kind of curious to see if that's actually verifying down to the surface.
I have a couple pixels here in the Hansen and Densen Drive neighborhood. uh picking up at 56 miles per hour and that is 1,200 feet off the ground.
A freeze watch has been issued.
That's going to be for all all of Northern Michigan. I wonder if that's Yeah. So, that's going to be for Sunday night into Monday. They're issuing a freeze watch, which makes sense because it's going to be cold to start your week. So, uh that freeze watch you see popping in at the bottom of the screen is for all of Northern Michigan.
Any more coming in? No. Okay. So, all of Northern Michigan is for well, actually parts of Central Michigan, too.
all of the overnight period from Sunday night into Monday. Again, we already have freeze warnings and frost advisory in effect for tonight. So, Saturday night into Sunday morning. So, the next two nights are going to be quite cold out there across the state.
We're almost there, y'all. We're We're almost there. And then we can enjoy the rest of our evening. Again, no severe thunderstorm warnings in effect out there at the current time of 3:11 in the afternoon here on May 9th.
But we are still watching for the potential.
Do we have a new core trying to pop up here is the question.
That volutric scan did not read.
Oh, the core is very shallow on this.
Part of that could be the vicinity to the radar, but it's not that impressive. I am still curious though. Excuse me. Sterling Heights over towards Frasier and Katy.
Still picking up at those 55 mile per hour winds around 14 mile, 15 mile, and 16 mile just south of Sterling Heights. So, let us know what you guys are seeing there.
if you are in the vicinity. See, Emily says the thunder is bad in the East Point Warren area. Thank you for the report there. It's going to be very rumbly out there for sure.
String Heights is windy. Okay, thank you guys very much. If you guys have any estimated wind speeds, that also does help us. But don't don't speculate, I would say. Just try and give it a best estimate.
If you miss our severe weather outlook released at 8 a.m. this morning is on our page. However, I will say this. I'll give you kind of the cliffnote version right now. The severe weather should be done by 7. It'll probably be done earlier than that. Um, and again, the main hazards are wind and hail out there. Tornadoes are less than 1% chance today. Uh, but the hail and wind is a 5 to 14% chance in the level two zone.
You'd have to see the map to kind of uh view it.
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16 Udica temp dropped at least 10 degrees, wind picking up. Thank you guys for that report there. Clinton Township, wind and thunder, windy in Ferndale, little thunder, a little rain. Harper Woods, Gross Beck and 16 mile. Pretty strong wind gust but very intermittent.
Branch County starting to get on the thunder. There we go. As I mentioned five minutes ago, literally said this, I was like, you guys are probably going to start to see that very sudden increase of thunder and lightning and that is popping up. You can see three little piggies. I kid you not. one, two, three of cells from south of Cold Water over to Allen and up to Addison that have popped up in secession for this cold front that is now on US12.
So, you can also see in each of these little cells here, there is cores and pockets of lightning.
So these cells I'm almost inclined to keep saying these little three little piggy cells are continue to head off to the east again.
Onstead Hudson would be up next. We do have a Hudson cam and an Allen cam. Go ahead and see if I can pull in some of our nearby cams here.
Also get our Dearborn cam in the background.
Dearborn has a good view on one of the cells in the Wayne County area.
That would be looking at the cell that is passing through the Ferndale area right now. So, this is what we're looking at. So, this is live from Dearbornne looking to the northish at that cell heading through Royal Oak and Ferndale at the current time.
And you can see the rain curtains out there in the distance. You see the little wispy lines moving down from underneath the clouds.
And another thing to note here is the bases of these clouds are very high. And so for the most part, these storms are staying elevated in nature, not able to really use up all the instability that is out there at the current time. So, the higher the cloud bases, the better off we're going to be.
But we do still expect wind and hail to be a concern as these cells move through the rest of southeast Michigan over the next hour or so. So, again, this is live from downtown Dearbornne looking to the north towards that cell that is in the Ferndale area.
I do also have a riverview camera that will have a view here very soon.
There's your riverview camera courtesy of Electronic Tech Solutions. That is the down river area. Of course, that is looking to the west at a couple additional cells trying to fire in the Wayne Monroe County areas. And we'll have a good view at this as a slang continues over into that neck of the woods within the next hour.
There we go. Bring Tyler's cam in. And we'll do a live little check-in with our chasers right now. We got Mike and Tyler out there this afternoon. Southeast Michigan.
We'll start with Mike. He's got a view of a nice little cloud there. He's in the Teacumpsy area, I believe, according to his location there at the bottom of the screen.
Not sure if that's updated or not. I'm going to guess it is.
And Tyler is in Sterling Heights. And he's also got a couple little puffy cumulus clouds trying to pop up there.
Uh for those who are curious, we don't have any cameras yet in Mcome County. Uh weather cameras. We do have a weather camera in that's going to be installed in the New Haven area soon. Uh but anywhere else in Mcome County, not a single weather camera for you guys. What is Tyler putting on his screen right now? I just got distracted, but I got to pull up his camera. Takes me a second to get there. Joel, where are storms?
They got to go where they're at.
If you're in Sterling Heights, you're very close to that storm down in Warren and Ferndale.
Tyler the comedian always cracking jokes.
I think this is the only cell that is really of any concern right now. We do still have that line of showers, thunderstorms up here in eastern St. Clair County between St. Clair and Marine City, also down in New Baltimore.
>> Joel, I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt, I am not sitting right next to >> Please update your location. Thank you very much.
>> Okay, fine.
>> So, they have the same view. I had no idea.
So, Tyler I was going to say that view looked familiar. It looked almost the same. There's Tyler's cam. There's Mike's cam.
Not a whole lot of difference there.
Well, they're if they're they are in Tacumpsy, they got storms headed their way.
Specifically, the one that's in Addison right now.
So that will be directly off to their uh east or sorry they're off to their west mind you uh directly over Addison. It's got about 15 or so miles till it arrives and at 45 miles per hour it'll be there within the next 10 to 15 minutes maybe within the next 20. It's we got a couple cells popping up here that will just kind of all ride back to back. So one cell then another then another then another. So keep an eye on him.
Janelle in chat says, "Tell them that's the point of chasing. It's not called wait for the storms to come to you."
That's a fair point.
Know they're in the line of fire for these storms and to come see, but that is a fair point.
Tyler will probably respond with he needs gas money, which is fair, especially right now. Um, current time, by the way, 3:20 p.m. And this line of storms is continuing to blossom across Hillsdale and now Lenway County. Temperatures down here in around 70°. Nice comfortable afternoon, but once that cold front moves through, welcome back. Fallike temperatures.
So far, kind of quick recap as I show you guys the zoomed out picture of radar.
We've had a severe thunderstorm warning.
You can see that kind of looping on the screen for northern Oakland County. And that was it. That's the only severe thundtorm warning we've had so far. And this is it was for 1in hail and 60 mph winds. We've had one confirmation of 1inch hail in Clarkston. And that's it.
This is a pretty self-explanatory low-end severe day where you get maybe a severe thundtorm warning or two. Again, this is a reminder why they don't issue severe thunderstorm watches on days like today is because the coverage is sometimes very low in nature. So, when you issue a severe thunderstorm watch for, you know, 12 counties across southeast Michigan and you get one severe thunderstorm warning out of it, it's not really effective. And so, that's where, you know, our knowledge of the storms comes in. Make sure you turn into your local meteorologist, myself included, of course. We'll tell you guys what to pay attention to. Of course, if there's any severe thunderstorm warnings that pop in, we'll be tracking them from beginning to end, as we always do.
Current time is now 3:22. We are live on five different platforms. So obviously we have Facebook and YouTube. Those are our most popular. We also have X. We also have Twitch TV which is highly underrated if you guys would like to check that out. And most recently we started live streaming on Tik Tok as well. So if that is a platform you also are on MI Stormchasers. As a reminder we are on all platforms. Mi stormchasers this afternoon. What we're doing right now is we're tracking these storms as they pop up but that's about it. There's no real sort of uh danger right now in terms of these storms other than the fact we do have some frequent cloud to ground lightning out there and some small hail. And anywhere the small hail is occurring is going to be primarily in southern Mcome and northeastern Wayne where we continue to watch the storm move through the Ferndale area.
Wind wise, if we take a look at the velocity radar, there's a nice pocket of wind in there as well. pixels right now reading 30, sorry, 44 to 45.
There's a couple pockets of 50 miles per hour in the St. Clair Shores and East Point area, but not severe wind. Still 50 mph winds. You guys know what that kind of feels like. It can bring down some isolated branches, so we got to be mindful of that.
Ps hail and Warren, thank you for the report.
Yes, they are passing very, very quickly.
Looks like we got Tyler on the move.
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Mike also on the move again. They've got some really good views of the dark clouds rolling in.
I got press four buttons to get to him here.
There's Mike.
There's Tyler. As a reminder, Tyler is also in Tecumpsy. His location is not updating at the current time. He's not in Sterling Heights. He is in Tacumpsy as well as Mike. So, they're kind of the same neck of the woods right out there in Lenway County. They are watching these cells blossom up and move in towards the Adrian and Hudson areas, which we do have more weather. We have a lot of weather cameras down in the uh Lenway County area, more than I think any other county in the state.
And we got Julie, one of our moderators in chat. $5 super chat here on YouTube saying for Tyler's gas money fund. Thank you very much, Julie. Appreciate your support.
There you go, Tyler.
In my personal opinion, this line is quite messy.
The only place where it's really defined right now is in the Warren and Hampton areas and St. Clair shores.
This is pretty much crossing 94 within the next minute or so. It already is in the St. Clair Shores area, but if you're from Detroit up through St. Clair Shores, it's going to be within the next 2 minutes. So, be advised if you are traveling on the interstates around uh downtown Detroit this afternoon, it's going to probably slow up for a little bit until these showers do leave the area.
do have a special order statement that is still in effect.
And that's really about it is for Mcome and St. Clair counties.
Half inch hail, 50 mile per hour winds.
That's it.
And we are glad that that is all. So we are just going to continue to watch.
Speaking of watching, Mike is very close to that cell. Now Tyler's also got a distant view on it.
So up there in the top left, sorry, top right of the screen out there in Teumpsy is what we're looking at for this cell specifically if I zoom in on it heading towards Onstead.
We'll go ahead and go full screen on the radar and we'll pull off my screen for a second. And you're going to hear it go silent cuz I'm going to adjust my desk.
I'm actually going to sit down and kind of wait for these storms to move in.
Again, I'm on my feet right now, so it's a little little tiring, but give me one second to move the desk.
Okay, we're back.
Yes, severe weather threat should be done by 7:00 at the latest tonight as I mentioned at 2:30. The way things are speeding up, this should all be done at that time within the next two hours.
And at the current time of 3:28, so about 2 minutes before 3:30 here, this line of storms is in Detroit and in St. Clair shores. But for the most part, if you look north, we still got a little bit of shower thunderstorm activity in Elgenac and Marine City. That is it for north of Detroit. South of Detroit and southwest of Detroit, it's pretty much all along and south of US 12.
And it'll say that way. So, if you're north of US 12, good news. You're in the clear for the rest of this evening.
Got a $2 super chat from Michelle over here on YouTube.
I think this is supposed to be a troll uh comment. Julie's garden while watching Heat Lightning. Yeah, Michelle's one of our Discord members here.
Thank you for the support.
I know it's a unintentional troll.
Roseville penny size tail possible otherwise half inch hail. Thank you for the report there.
guys are comedians.
It's always It's always nice when these streams turn into kind of these uh laidback events. We can kind of chat with you guys a little bit, just hang out, wait and see.
But yeah, I honestly am curious if This is just going to turn into the rest of the junk that is further to the north and just only produce that half inch hail like what we're kind of seeing right now in the East Point and Hammerick areas.
Gross Point Woods, Gross Point Farms can be on your doorstep and Gross Point Park within the next 5 to 7 minutes if not sooner.
So, if you need to be inside away from windows, now is your time to do that till this line of storms passes, which will be pretty quickly. As I mentioned, average speed of these storms a day, 45 miles per hour off to the east, east, northeast Go ahead and switch over to our Indiana radar for the first time.
Checking on these cells to the south of the state line as well as the ones that are in Hillsdale and Lenway County. And they just don't look that impressive. And in fact, I just don't see these storms going severe at this current time. They really, they would really need to get their act together. But check out your ZDR radar.
Guys remember what I was saying about ZDR radar.
All of the cooler colors, collapsing storms.
With that in mind, we're honestly not doing half bad out there. Severe weather. We'll go ahead and check out the the terminal Doppler radar.
Yeah. Wow. These storms are these storms are toast.
According to what I'm seeing here, these storms are pretty pretty toast right now.
We'll we'll give it till 3:40 and if nothing happens, I think we'll be able to call it good and then I'll kind of just like sit in the background and then we will have a part two stream. But the storms are are pretty toast right now.
Falling falling down on themselves pretty much guys again. comedians in chat today.
YouTube chat, I swear sometimes is a little unhinged, but that's why we have a mod team.
Taking another live look at Mike's cam and Tyler's cam right side by side there in the Tacumpsy area. Okay, I think we'll leave it on Mike's cam just because it does have the accurate location.
Yes, there are no severe thunderstorm warnings in the state as one of our mods alluded to here. Thank you for reminding me there, Sarah. When there are no severe thunderstorm warnings, we're kind of just waiting and seeing at the current time.
Yes, we are unhinged in the best way possible.
You guys have never attended a MSC after hours or what's it called? After dark after hours stream.
I don't remember. Something like that.
After I'm trying to search for the word remember what we call it. It's just after hours with MSC. Usually after 11:00 p.m. we have a stream late night.
Uh chat is usually pretty uh pretty wild. But when we're able to kind of be relaxed like this, it's it's a good sign. Should remember that. If it's if it's pretty chill and laidback, then that is a sign that we are not concerned about anything out there at the current time. So good rule of thumb.
Yes, MSE after dark. Thank you for that reminder.
Please do not say false things about tornadoes happening. We have not had any tornadoes happen today.
That's one thing we will not tolerate in chat is lying and making people anxious.
So don't do that. This is a friendly reminder. A couple cores right now.
Dearbornne and Detroit. Still have my Dearborn cam in the background I believe and it's just all rain right now.
River view cam kind of has it a little bit on the right side there.
Again, courtesy of Electronic Tech Solutions in there over there in the Riverview area down river.
Are you asking me if I've ever seen a water spout in person? I have not. I've seen tornadoes in person.
I have not seen a water spout. Not usually the one to go out and see water spouts. It'd have to be kind of a unintentional meet up to see a water spout.
There we go. Do I have There we go. Location's updated now.
Tyler, we're cooking.
Tyler is into also got Mike out there.
Also into high school.
>> I see that.
There's no tornado watch when enemies are nearby.
>> No, no tor no tornado watches out there.
No tornadoes have occurred. Main hazards today are wind and hail.
Oh, we had a mezoscale discussion. 5% chance of a severe thunderstorm.
I'm guessing that was Freddy. Freddy, do you have your cam live?
>> Yeah, I do.
I'll have to go into studio mode here and get that camera in.
Not seeing it.
Uh, Freddy, I do not have your camera or location. Just a heads up.
>> Sorry.
If your name is Freddy. Yes.
Um, another quick shout out here. Looks like we got uh this Janelle $5 super chat for 10 more drops of gas for Tyler. Also, do I got to worry about smaller pop-up showers later messing with the drone show in Highland tonight. I will say this, there are more showers and storms possible later tonight. It will be harder for the rain to make it to the surface just because of how dry it's going to get right behind this cold front. So, showers will probably pop up on radar. Most of that rain will hopefully not make it down to the surface for your evening plans, but we will still be watching showers and thundtorms later tonight well behind the cold front. It's just again they'll be kind of drier in nature. So the for your evening activities, the chances that you actually get your evening activities in are actually quite decent at the current time. Um hopefully Holland specifically for you Janelle is one of those places that remains dry. Current temperature in Holland is 61 degrees with a due point of 48. It's not bad.
2 minutes of solid PSI hail in Gross Point Farms. Thank you for that report there. Again, that cell is over point Gross Point Farms right now. Still pretty small in nature. There a lot of down lot of cloud to ground lightning and that's about it.
We are quickly making it through it.
Yeah, these these storms are not that impressive.
Again, every everything I'm showing you guys on here is our updraft strength. And we're showing you these greens, blues, and grays. That is storms that have not shown signs of strengthening at all despite or besides their initial popup.
Here we'll check the wind from the airport radar.
It does appear that is trying to gust down in the vicinity of Manu Beach. So Rome Road and Holland's Highway.
Keep an eye on that little cell right there.
That'd be far western Lenoway County for those who are curious. And we do have a camera on that.
Oh, let me get my Hudson camera up.
Hudson. Hudson. Hudson.
There we go.
Oh, it was already up. Okay.
So watching there we go. So this is in Hudson looking north towards our Addison cell.
This is courtesy of Raptor Industries there in the area of the Hillsdale and Lenway County line.
Raptor Industries is a proud sponsor of one of our or I should say two of our weather cameras here at MSSE. They also have a south facing cam which I can also bring in. Just give me a second here. Have to go exit back out of full screen and get it.
Yeah, there's their south game. So, a south and a north. They got cells on both sides of them. And there's your north facing cell. There's your south facing cell. So, pretty high bases out there.
Again, these are clouds with a lot of moisture in them.
Again, the darker they are, the more moisture content they have. But, as you can see, there's not a whole lot going on beneath the clouds other than the fact that they're just trying to rain themselves out. And that is why I am pretty lax right now in terms of whether or not these storms are going to actually become severe.
Obviously, best environment is right here in the Hudson area, but not stressed.
I did say I'd give it until 340. I think I'm going to wait till 350 now just to make sure those winds are not going to continue to increase in nature.
That' be our Addison cell.
in Rome Road at Townley Highway.
It's quickly heading for US 223. It should be over US 2020. US 223 within the next four minutes.
Yeah, it could be multiple storms down here by the state line for sure.
Yep. One second.
It is not popping in.
Well, we'll go ahead and at least give us give out the shout out that is absolutely necessary here at MSC. Again, anyone that donates optionally, again, we appreciate you guys so very much.
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Wanted to quickly bring up our Hudson camera once again. It's very dark here as the storm is now passing overhead.
And we'll start to see it rain here in just a second as well. Again, courtesy of Raptor Industries in Hudson, Michigan.
Duplicate radar showing up.
Need to hone back in on the winds here.
Hudson looks a little gusty, but I I'm only seeing pixels up around 45 to 48 miles per hour. So given the fact we don't have any special order statements at all, we are not anywhere close to uh seeing severe weather here in southeast Michigan. So, think we're about ready to hop off then.
Austin's also out there jumping into action.
go ahead and put his camera up on the screen as well for a little bit and we'll switch it back to radar.
Another rainstorm. Another free car wash. I love that.
Uh we also have Ann W back for month number 12. Welcome back for a year an saying looking forward to the document uh documentary.
Thank you very much Ann. And yes it's a good reminder that for those who don't know we've been putting in multiple multiple months of work into the 2025 Icetorm documentary and that will be out on YouTube here in less than a week. So, if you are not subscribed on YouTube, again, it is free to do. We wish that was changed. I wish the subscribe button said follow, but again, that's what it is. Subscribe on YouTube. It is free to do. If you have a Google account, then you are able to subscribe on YouTube. Uh, make sure to do that. Turn on notifications because in a week, in less than a week, the release of our uh 2025 ice storm documentary will be out on our YouTube page. We will also link it. We also link uh our YouTube on our other social media platforms once it's released, but ultimately it will be released on YouTube and YouTube only. So, if you aren't subscribed yet, good idea to do that right now. That red button again, free to click for you guys down there at the bottom of the screen.
No problem. Vinding, I believe that's how it's pronounced.
First time in chat. Just wanted to say how much calmer I am during storms and I can watch the live stream. Thank you.
Yeah, no problem. It's why we're here.
Again, not stressing these storms too much. There could be a little bit of gustiness of wind and of course frequent cloud of ground lightning. The only cells we're watching right now are in Lenway and starting to move into Monroe County, but these cells are primarily confined within far eastern Hillsdale and Lenway County at the current time.
not stressing.
Uh, this is GR2. That's the radar product that we're using here.
Quiz time.
How many minutes should everyone wait until the last lightning strike has occurred or last thunder rumble have occurred?
If you guys are watching earlier in the stream, you know the answer. If you don't, take a wild guess.
See what everyone says. Again, what what is the minimum amount of time you should wait until you last see lightning or hear thunder in order to resume outdoor activities?
time frame.
Quick little quiz here as we wrap up the stream.
Our moderators are on it. Then Julie of course says 67 and our chasers. They're all being funny. Yes, everyone is correct. I see overwhelmingly 30 minutes in chat. You guys are absolutely correct.
Glad the education is rubbing off a little bit.
Yep. And yes, that is actually the rule.
30 minutes. Um, if you guys have played high school sports or know somebody that plays high school sports, the MHSAA here in Michigan, that is their rule that they have implemented is you have to they have to wait 30 minutes until the last lightning strike has occurred or last thunder rumble has occurred in order to resume play. So that's a good rule of thumb to keep.
Yes, I always love teaching people.
Hopefully everyone uh remembers the radar knowledge as well. I know so a lot of you guys out there probably don't have a radar app that shows all of these different radar thing these different radar products I'm flashing on the screen but if you do quiz you guys on the radars once again so for example this one's pretty easy to remember when I'm showing you guys the reds and the greens ignore the purples that's rangefolded don't worry about that but when I'm showing you guys the red and green radar what does the red and green radar moderators, feel free to hold off on your answer until everyone else has uh given it a shot.
I'll give you guys an answer at the end.
Don't worry, it'll be a teaching moment, a reteing moment.
But what does the red and green radar denote specifically? You can say the name or what its purpose is.
It's the one I'm showing you guys right now on the screen.
Okay. See a bunch of different mixed answers in here.
I will definitely accept rotation.
Velocity is the technical term. Yep.
Uh warm and low pressure is not quite correct. It's okay though.
Yes. Also will accept wind going towards and away from the radar site. Yes.
Absolutely.
Spinny spinny. Yeah, that's another good good idea there. It is velocity. So the measurement of wind in the atmosphere.
So, when we're looking at velocity radar, our wind radar, we're looking for the brighter greens and the brighter reds to be our stronger winds. And if the reds and greens are close together, very very close together, and that would be rotation in certain cases. If if it is also close together, it can also be a downburst. We've seen that happen before, but in most cases, uh usually will be rotation. But at the current time, this is just a lot of green out there. We are seeing a couple instances of brighter green which would be stronger winds of 45 50 mph. But yes, most of you guys nailed it. And if you didn't, that's okay. No worries. This is a teaching moment for you guys if you guys would love to use different types of radar products going forward. Again, you can access the same radar we do here at MSC on your phone. So, highly recommend if you guys want to check out an app with Velocity on it, Radar Scope.
Now, I will say this.
We may have an app coming. Well, that's no secret, but we do have an app coming at some point and it may have all these tools on it as well. So, for now, I will recommend Radar Scope. But in the future, Michigan Stormchasers app, it's in development right now. So, be ready.
Then we can start recommending our own app.
Get out a photograph quiz. Oh, I will not do that today. Maybe during a briefing.
And yes, that's another reminder.
>> Definitely time to start talking about >> Tyler. I'm not going to do that.
We'll talk about a different day. Um, as a reminder, the green specifically if you want to look at a radar site, the green on our velocity radar is towards the radar. So, right now, um, if I go down here to our TDTW radar, anywhere in green is when heading towards the radar site. Anything in red is when heading away from the radar site. So, red away, green towards. And as a reminder, the purple, you don't have to worry about it. But if you're curious what the purple means, that is rangefolded. Essentially, the radar is shooting out an electromagnetic pulse and it bounces off the storm and as it's heading back, it's intercepting another pulse and it causes it to get all scrambled. And so, it doesn't know if it's reading a returning pulse or a cloud. And so, what it does is it's it's bad data. And so, essentially, it just gets rid of it. And so, covers it up with a purple pixel. So, there's a lot of bad data, especially in our smaller radar here at the TDTW uh location.
Uh but if you were else if you went to, for example, the Detroit radar, which is up in Oakland County, it shows a lot less rangefolded uh on theirs.
Just noticed that they do have again velocity radar, the measurement of the winds. Do have a little bit of some inbound winds towards the radar site here of 50 miles per hour.
And that is at 92 feet off the ground.
So it's pretty close to the ground. Keep an eye on that. Sherman Road at Plank Road heading towards Oakville. So Milin, that's you guys.
Just double checking behind the scenes there anything that's of importance. And I'm not seeing anything from any of our chasers or any of our staff behind the scenes. So, we're chilling right now.
Mike's got a cool shot underneath the mezo there.
See the rain curtains directly in front of him. He is in Britain now over there in the M50 corridor with the radar right now. It is kind of pick your poison if you're out there chasing. You got cells all over the place at the current time.
We've now been live for officially two hours.
50 mile per hour winds still heading in towards the radar site here. This is heading towards Hitchingham Road in Milin Oakville Road. Also secondary burst in Oakville. Again, let us know what you guys are seeing in these locations.
Do you appreciate any heads up?
Any ground truth?
Drop the app. We we will we will definitely try. Um yeah, we we will definitely get an app out soon. It's just it's in development right now.
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Uh speed right now of these storms about 40 to 45 miles per hour.
So, keep that in mind if you are out in front of any of these storms right now.
There's just a whole cluster of them in Lenway and Monroe County. This cell actually in Milin is trying to head up in towards the uh very southwest corner of Wayne, creeping into far southeastern Washington right now, which is where Austin is kind of heading.
We do have his cam looking right at it.
Looks like he is there on US 23 heading south.
If you're having I will say this. If you're having trouble viewing any of the details on our screen, our bottom bar is actually already big enough as it is.
So, if it is still a trouble seeing it, I will recommend this. This is something that a lot of our viewers already do.
Uh, feel free to screencast it to your TV if possible. A lot of smart TVs have YouTube already built into them. You can pull it up on there or your phone has an option to screencast to the TV as well.
Highly recommend. Or if you need to plug it in some hard way with the cord, also an option. Obviously, I understand not everyone can do that. Uh but again if you do have the means to do that uh highly recommend uh because again a lot of the details we do we are showing here at the bottom of the screen are already pretty large and take up more room that we than we really want to for these streams. So, um, highly recommend watching on TV, uh, if possible.
Dundy should be clear for a while. Dundy is actually getting close to the cell that's in the Milin area. I'll go ahead and pull up our Dundee cam as well.
Again, we have a network of 101 different weather cameras out there in the state of Michigan. And Dundy has a really good view on this cell as it's rolling down M50 right now.
Just turning the camera before I get it situated.
Making sure I'm not missing anything here.
So again, this is the cell right here going right down day road at Far Road and that again is a mile into Monroe County on the Monroe Lenway County line between Britain and Dundee. Here is the live view of our Dundee cam.
You can see the cloud bases on these are very high up today called elevated storms. It's also somewhat drier at the surface. The due point's only in the 50s. And now looking north. This is at this is pretty much right in downtown Dundee. If you guys know where Dundee is at, been to Dundy many times. Uh you probably recognize roads right through here. This is on top of ANS garage in Dundee, Michigan. Right in downtown. There's the dam there and the river. Of course, the storm, the center focal point of the screen.
any more flying cows tonight. There was never flying cows to begin with.
I like the enthusiasm, though. But no, we're we're we're not in Kansas, so good news.
Oakville, Oakville, Waltz, Milan Oakville Road. These winds are now directly in downtown Oakville, reading 47 miles per hour at 43 feet off the ground. So, it looks like for the most part, these wind pockets you see in here are quite elevated. We're still getting winds gusting down to the surface, don't get me wrong, but these are not near severe at the current time.
And I'm curious to see if any of the if we start to see statements for hail because I'm starting to see some decent pockets here of these reds and pinks on a reflectivity radar, which mind you is the one that shows this. This is a reflectivity radar. The intensity of the rain that's falling.
Um GR2 automated software says hail estimated at 38 inches in diameter uh near Legghorn and Geer Road is about 3 miles south of Ida. So, if you're in the neighborhood of Ida and points south, let us know what you guys are seeing there if you're watching in chat.
I see Linda says it is downpouring in Ida. Thank you very much, Linda.
shot showers and thunderstorms are still possible later tonight, but as I mentioned here early in the stream, we are really losing our uh moisture in tow of this cold front. And so it's going to be very dry out there the rest of the night. That's also why we have a special weather statement in effect up in northern Michigan. Fire weather is possible through the evening hours until the moisture does move back in overnight.
Besides our P-sized hail, as I keep mentioning here, guys, I'm not stressed whatsoever about these storms. P-sized hail and thunder and lightning. As long as you're taking your necessary measures to stay safe from thunder and lightning and of course the occasional hail, there's really not a need to honestly be live right now other than the fact that we're just showing you where these storms are at.
And so we are just going to go ahead and probably wrap it up here in just a second.
And I've been saying that for the last 30 minutes now, but I think uh now is that time.
We're getting pretty close.
Small hail downtown Ida. Thank you for the report there. Hail and Adrian as well.
Thank you for that report. We also have an Adrian Cammy and Lenway County is pretty covered in terms of cameras. So, I'll go ahead and pull in Adrian here. It's also pretty sunny behind the cold front. As I mentioned, a lot of dry air moving in.
So, we will see the sun come back out later tonight uh for many locations as a cold front moves through.
So, here's our Adrien Cam. This is courtesy of two different sponsors at this location. Midas Auto Services and Adrien Sign.
Those are the two companies responsible for sponsoring the camera here right in downtown. Adrian and if I recall correctly that is the intersection of Beecher and 223 specifically business 223.
So, M52 and Beecher.
A lot of you guys that live in the Adrian area know exactly where that is at.
So, next time you go by, make sure to wave.
That cell is now passing off to the east.
Hills deals.
Not really. They did not get really.
They didn't really get hit. They kind of got the start of the line of storms.
The word to describe the storms that are out there in our is garden variety.
Again, obviously you do have some small hail starting to pop in there in Monroe County and of course in Adrian, but the hail size for severe is 1 in in diameter and right now you guys are reporting P-sized hail. It is very far from severe limits at the current time. So right now we are just watching storms that are not severe.
only in Lenway and Monroe counties at the current time. If you are north of there, cold front is over you guys or about to be very soon.
And so where if you are north of Lenway and Monroe counties, you guys are in the all clear for the evening. As a reminder, storms are still possible.
Just not excuse me, not expect to be severe in nature.
So, we've been live for about 2 hours and 12 minutes now. If you missed everything that's happened in the stream so far, we had one severe thunderstorm warning for Oakland County. That was it.
They did verify a 1-in hail report there, which verifies a severe thunderstorm warning. and we've had three or four different special weather statements that have not really amounted to anything so far that we've seen behind the scenes.
So, it's been a pretty uh low-end event.
Quite the storms over there in Ontario though. That is absolutely a severe thunderstorm if you are south of Chattam.
That's an Ontario though.
This is uh pretty grungy in nature in garden variety as I keep see as I keep saying don't want to jinx it if you know what I mean. Just don't want to leave the live but that's really honestly the only reason why I haven't jumped off yet is I just don't want to jinx it. Um, also want to shout out our mods and chasers, of course, for being out there today.
Appreciate you guys so very much.
Again, we had Austin out there. We have Freddy, Mike, Tyler. Some of their cameras have kind of cut in and out. Um, but again, shout out to you guys as well for being out there. That's always fun when we have a day where it's not nothing's going on. We guys kind of just hang out, just chill. And that's kind of what this afternoon has been besides that one severe thunderstorm warning. So pinks continue to increase in Monroe.
As a reminder, pinks mean very heavy rain droplets. Uh GR2 automated software estimating hail size of.36 in in diameter, which is between Mothball and P size in Monroe or south of Monroe I should say. So between Monroe and Luna Pier.
That's about it.
That cell's going to be on Lake Erie here in the next 10 or so minutes easily.
Thumbsized Oh, okay. I saw thumb sized hair on our Facebook stream. Some thumb sized hail souththeast of Adrian. Uh, depends on how big your thumbs are. That could vary by size. Some people have some pretty big thumbs. So, mine's probably I'm just eyeballing it here. 04 in. So, that would make sense in terms of uh kind of what the automated software is picking up on here.
It is hailing in Monroe, says Caitlin.
Thank you for that. How big is the hailstones in Monroe?
Go ahead and click over to my posh radar which probability of significant hail not showing any signs of severe hail. So our rearview view cam I believe has a view on this just a little bit.
Now I can finally use it. There you go.
courtesy once again of Electronic Tech Solutions over there in the Riverview, Michigan area.
So that is looking to the southeast.
Nope, that is a totally different storm.
There are a couple other cells in the Willow, Flat Rock, and Jialter area that are on camera right now. So, not the storm that we're wanting to see in Monroe County, but still a storm nonetheless.
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West Monroe, lightning, thunder, no hail. Terra Monroe, thunder, lightning, and rain. Okay, we're kind of playing it by street here. I think uh Kalin, you must be on the south side of Monroe here because look at where our reds and pinks are located. Uh again, all really south of Dunar at the current time.
Austin's down there in Milin right now on the edge of the rain curve. He's kind of right on the edge of the front.
And of course, we have Mike out there.
He's in Dundee. It's in the middle of it. and he's heading through Ida I believe right now according to his spotter dot and he does have a view on the Monroe cell. So that is it right there. Let's turn this reception's a little little spotty there but you can see the cell off the left side of the screen.
Frenchtownship. Dark clouds, lots of thunder and lightning, not much rain.
Thank you very much, Tequita.
Uh if you're just joining us, not a whole lot going on out there. We're just watching Lenway and Monroe County, making sure that they're all in the all clear. And I'm at this point pretty convinced that we're not going to get a severe thunderstorm warning out of these storms unless we get a sudden downburst, which we'll check out our our Doppler radar at the airport just to make sure there's no down burst out there. And there are a couple pockets of wind, but most of these pockets of wind still well below severe limits of 50 m per hour or less. Don't get me wrong, once again, 50 mph winds are 50 mph winds. That's not severe. And so again, it's just take your necessary precautions to secure your loose objects and then you'll be good.
Maybe Mike's looking at a different storm. Might be looking at south of Petersburg. Although that doesn't look that impressive on radar.
The wind core there though does.
Uh here is by the way an update on the riverview cam. Starting to see more structure popping up.
This is again looking from Riverview Electronic Tech Solutions Southwest.
There's a cell right now in the Willow area. That is what we're seeing on radar. And some pretty decent looking rain curtains there too on the left side of the screen.
This is absolutely a tail. Two sides.
Yeah, this is not appearing to go severe.
Whoa, we just zoomed in so far.
All right.
Well, with Monroe kind of getting in on the action last here.
Obviously, we still have a couple of showers and thunderstorms out there across this area in southeast Michigan.
There has not been any additional statements issued and there from what we're hearing from your guys' reports, it's only been P-sized hail.
So, that is well below severe limits.
With that being said, I believe we're going to hop off for now. Obviously, if we just get a warning to pop in here for a quick 5 minutes or so, we'll obviously come back in. We're not going anywhere.
We'll be watching scenes, but please stay safe out there. A lot of thunder and lightning still ongoing across southeast Michigan. Make sure to wait 30 minutes until those storms do go by.
And again, if you do hear thunder or see lightning, head indoors. Stay inside.
And as always, stay tuned to our page here at Michigan Stormchasers for more radar updates and perhaps more live streams later today. As always, follow us on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, X, and of course now Tik Tok as well has live streams that you can watch on. Our username on all those platforms is mistormchasers.
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Once again, I am chief meteorologist Joel Fritzma signing off for now. If you're in Monroe County, keep an eye out for those uh lightning bolts and rumbles of thunder. Stay safe out there. there.
And again, shout out to our chasers who are out there right now. Finishing up their chases for this afternoon.
Appreciate you guys for being out there.
And we'll talk later, everyone. Part two coverage coming. We'll see. But for now, we'll hop off. And either way, we'll talk to you guys soon. Whether or not it's a severe live stream or just a briefing, we'll see you soon. And as always, continue to follow us here at Michigan Stormchasers. Have a great rest of your afternoon.
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