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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 443

June 11, 2004Henderson County, Mercer County, Illinois; 50 counties in Iowa; Grant County, Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 11, 2004, 9:35 PM CDT for Henderson County, Mercer County, Illinois; 50 counties in Iowa; Grant County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 2004, 9:35 PM CDT (02:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2004, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 53 counties

Appanoose County, IA, Benton County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Butler County, IA, Cedar County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Henry County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Lee County, IA, Linn County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Marion County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Polk County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Story County, IA, Tama County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Warren County, IA, Washington County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Wright County, IA, Henderson County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Grant County, WI

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXMarshall, Story59 min
Jun 11, 11:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNDelaware, Linn57 min
Jun 11, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNJones63 min
Jun 12, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNDubuque54 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 314 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2004-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2004-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2604 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 10:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Grundy, Jo Daviess and 10 more56 min
Jun 11, 11:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBureau, Carroll, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy and 15 more5 hr
Jun 12, 1:48 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 19 more87 min
Jun 12, 3:08 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Iroquois, Kane and 7 more97 min
Jun 12, 10:48 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGallatin, Hardin, Massac, Pope2 hr
Jun 12, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCHenderson, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren5 hr
Jun 12, 3:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 11 more84 min
Jun 12, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more5 hr
Jun 12, 6:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more37 min
Jun 11, 7:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Calhoun and 26 more93 min
Jun 12, 11:45 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 31 more7 hr
Jun 12, 12:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAudubon, Cass, Crawford, Fremont, Harrison, Mills and 4 more92 min
Jun 12, 5:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 29 more90 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Wisconsin, 2004Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2004

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.