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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 461
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 11, 2005, 3:55 PM CDT for Iron County, Michigan; 23 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2005, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2005, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Iron County, MI, Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Florence County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Forest County, WI, Iron County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Portage County, WI, Price County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Vilas County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Winnebago County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Price | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oneida | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Vilas | 66 min |
| Jun 11, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Forest, Langlade, Menominee, Oconto, Shawano | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Florence, Marinette | 82 min |
| Jun 11, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Brown | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oconto | 17 min |
| Jun 11, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Iron | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oconto | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 38 min |
| Jun 11, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marathon | 47 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 916 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 11:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clare, Clinton, Crawford, Gladwin, Gratiot, Ionia and 9 more | 87 min |
| Jun 11, 3:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baraga, Dickinson, Iron, Menominee | 97 min |
| Jun 11, 6:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, Menominee, Ontonagon | 86 min |
| Jun 11, 12:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Barron, Brown, Buffalo, Burnett, Calumet and 44 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 11, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Barron, Buffalo, Burnett, Chippewa, Clark and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 5:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Sawyer, Washburn | 86 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.