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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 192

May 12, 20044 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 12, 2004, 12:20 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 12, 2004, 12:20 PM CDT (17:20 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 2004, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 60 counties

Allamakee County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Howard County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Worth County, IA, Baraga County, MI, Gogebic County, MI, Ontonagon County, MI, Dodge County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Houston County, MN, Mower County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Winona County, MN, Adams County, WI, Ashland County, WI, Barron County, WI, Bayfield County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Burnett County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Grant County, WI, Iron County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Portage County, WI, Price County, WI, Richland County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vernon County, WI, Vilas County, WI, Washburn County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXWinona33 min
May 12, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa46 min
May 12, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLincoln46 min
May 12, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTOntonagon40 min
May 12, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXClark46 min
May 12, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWood30 min
May 12, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXHouston47 min
May 12, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarathon45 min
May 12, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTBaraga28 min
May 12, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBPortage, Wood45 min
May 12, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTBaraga47 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 158 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2004-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 503 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2004-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 295 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
503 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-149 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
858 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
295 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
278 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 11:29 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cerro Gordo and 12 more2 hr
May 12, 2:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton and 8 more83 min
May 12, 3:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton and 10 more83 min
May 12, 5:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Clayton, Fayette53 min
May 11, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen and 4 more6 hr
May 11, 7:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBecker, Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen113 min
May 11, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBecker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Cass, Clay, Clearwater and 15 more5 hr
May 11, 10:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Grant, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Otter Tail and 6 more2 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.