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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 405

June 5, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2005, 12:50 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2005, 12:50 PM CDT (17:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 55 counties

Allamakee County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Butler County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Howard County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Gogebic County, MI, Dodge County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Houston County, MN, Lake County, MN, Mower County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Winona County, MN, 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, Iowa County, WI, Iron County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Lafayette County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk 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, Washburn County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 1:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	37 min
Jun 5, 2:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Rusk	47 min
Jun 5, 3:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Price, Sawyer	38 min
Jun 5, 3:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Rusk	31 min
Jun 5, 3:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Ashland, Iron, Price	63 min
Jun 5, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Carlton, Saint Louis	34 min
Jun 5, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Gogebic	64 min
Jun 5, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Iron	29 min
Jun 5, 4:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Saint Croix	42 min
Jun 5, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon	37 min
Jun 5, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MQT	Gogebic	51 min
Jun 5, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Gogebic	49 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, 5.8 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 201 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -157 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 929 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista and 43 more	7 hr
Jun 4, 7:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 24 more	2 hr
Jun 4, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 27 more	8 hr
Jun 4, 9:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appanoose, Decatur, Fremont, Lucas, Monroe, Page and 3 more	87 min
Jun 4, 10:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 28 more	90 min
Jun 4, 10:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appanoose, Decatur, Monroe, Page, Ringgold, Taylor and 1 more	52 min
Jun 4, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Harrison and 10 more	5 hr
Jun 5, 12:55 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 22 more	95 min
Jun 5, 12:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton and 14 more	86 min
Jun 5, 3:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee, Bremer, Butler, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette and 4 more	84 min
Jun 5, 6:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee, Bremer, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Howard and 2 more	53 min
Jun 4, 7:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baraga, Gogebic, Iron, Ontonagon	90 min
Jun 5, 11:55 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Clinton, Eaton and 18 more	65 min
Jun 5, 12:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alcona, Allegan, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Barry and 44 more	7 hr
Jun 5, 2:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Eaton, Hillsdale and 4 more	117 min
Jun 5, 3:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, Marquette, Menominee	5 hr
Jun 5, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Genesee, Lapeer, Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe and 6 more	2 hr
Jun 4, 11:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Jefferson and 9 more	5 hr
Jun 5, 2:52 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Calumet, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Jefferson and 14 more	83 min

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.