NWS Detroit/Pontiac MISV.W 0127September 3, 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Wayne, MI
The National Weather Service office in Detroit/Pontiac issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Wayne in Michigan, which was in force until 4:45 p.m. local time on September 3. It was the 127th severe thunderstorm warning the NWS office in Detroit/Pontiac issued in 2026. Michigan had 43 severe thunderstorm warnings in September 2026, against 26 in an average September of 2008-2025 (Michigan's severe thunderstorm warnings by year).
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The notice
- Issued by
- National Weather Service, Detroit/Pontiac MI
- Area
- Wayne
- State
- Michigan
- Level
- Warning
- Issued
- 3:44 p.m. EDT, September 3, 2026
- Expires
- 4:45 p.m. EDT, September 3, 2026
- CAP severity, certainty, urgency
- Severe, Observed, Immediate
- VTEC event
- KDTX SV.W 0127
- Official source
- National Weather Service: the notice at its source
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The notice as issued
SVRDTX The National Weather Service in Detroit/Pontiac has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Wayne County in southeastern Michigan... * Until 445 PM EDT. * At 344 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Clarkston to near West Bloomfield to Salem to near Saline, moving east at 55 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * Severe thunderstorms will be near... Livonia, Southfield, Novi, Canton, Northville, and Belleville around 350 PM EDT. Romulus and Dearborn around 355 PM EDT. Taylor and Greenfield Village around 400 PM EDT. Flat Rock, Detroit, and Wyandotte around 405 PM EDT. Downtown Detroit, Trenton, and Belle Isle around 410 PM EDT. Grosse Pointe and Grosse Ile around 415 PM EDT. Other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include Melvindale, Gibraltar, New Boston, Rockwood, Harper Woods, Westland, Grosse Pointe Shores, Ecorse, Grosse Pointe Woods, and Woodhaven.
What the agency told people to do
Remain alert for a possible tornado! Tornadoes can develop quickly from severe thunderstorms. If you spot a tornado go at once into the basement or small central room in a sturdy structure. For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.
Source: National Weather Service: the notice at its source. The text is the agency's, unedited. A U.S. Government work, in the public domain.