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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 425

June 7, 200524 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 7, 2005, 10:20 AM CDT for 24 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 2005, 10:20 AM CDT (15:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2005, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties

Adams County, WI, Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Clark County, WI, Columbia County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Portage County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Vernon County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:21 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 11:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXJackson, Trempealeau46 min
Jun 7, 12:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWood34 min
Jun 7, 2:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBPortage, Waushara35 min
Jun 7, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXJuneau50 min
Jun 7, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXSauk46 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2005-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 351 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2005-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1227 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
8 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 9:54 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Columbia, Crawford and 19 more2 hr
Jun 7, 1:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Brown, Calumet, Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac and 16 more114 min
Jun 7, 2:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBuffalo, Dunn, Pepin, Pierce, Saint Croix, Trempealeau55 min
Jun 7, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarron, Buffalo, Burnett, Dunn, Pepin, Pierce and 3 more6 hr
Jun 7, 3:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Brown, Calumet, Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac and 12 more32 min
Jun 7, 4:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Barron, Brown, Buffalo, Burnett, Chippewa and 33 more37 min
Jun 7, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Calumet, Chippewa, Clark, Eau Claire, Florence and 25 more7 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.