{"id":54101,"date":"2023-08-24T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=54101"},"modified":"2023-08-25T16:35:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T16:35:36","slug":"heavy-rainfall-and-flooding-causes-a-ground-stop-at-detroit-metropolitan-wayne-county-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/54101","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rainfall and flooding causes a ground stop at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images, with an overlay of the Total Precipitable Water derived product [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>5-minute GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images with an overlay of the Total Precipitable Water<\/strong><\/a> (TPW) derived product (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed a pocket of high moisture — with TPW values in the 2.0-2.3 inch range — just northeast of a quasi-stationary front that was draped across lower Michigan during the nighttime hours preceding sunrise on 24 August 2023. As a Mesoscale Convective System was expanding south-southwestward from Ontario into Ohio, it produced an outflow boundary that moved to the northwest across lower Michigan — and that outflow boundary appeared to play a role in enhancing the development of new thunderstorms that then moved southeast across the Detroit (METAR identifier KDTW) area.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images, with 15-minute METAR surface reports plotted in cyan [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A closer look at GOES-16 Infrared images as the thunderstorms moved across the Detroit area is shown above with plots of 15-minute surface reports, and below with plots of 1-hour Precipitation Accumulation. Detroit Metro Wayne County Airport (KDTW) and Detroit Willow Run Airport (KYIP) as well as Monroe (KTTF) had rainfall rates in excess of 1.5-2.0 inches per hour at times. Total rainfall accumulations<\/strong><\/a> from these storms were as high as 7.36 inches in Wayne County and 6.80 inches in Monroe County.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images, with 1-hour Precipitation Accumulation plotted in cyan [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>The heavy rainfall led to flooding of roadways and tunnels leading to KDTW (below)<\/strong><\/em> — which resulted in a brief ground stop of air traffic (media story<\/strong><\/a>) until the flooding subsided and roads could re-open allowing access to the airport.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) image at 1151 UTC, with Local Storm Reports plotted in cyan [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5-minute GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images with an overlay of the Total Precipitable Water (TPW) derived product (above) showed a pocket of high moisture — with TPW values in the 2.0-2.3 inch range — just northeast of a quasi-stationary front that was draped across lower Michigan during the nighttime hours preceding sunrise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":54105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,74,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation","category-goes-16","category-heavy-rain-flooding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54101"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54116,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54101\/revisions\/54116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}