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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 516

June 24, 200513 counties in Michigan; 21 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 24, 2005, 9:50 AM EDT for 13 counties in Michigan; 21 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 2005, 9:50 AM EDT (13:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2005, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties

Antrim County, MI, Charlevoix County, MI, Cheboygan County, MI, Chippewa County, MI, Delta County, MI, Dickinson County, MI, Emmet County, MI, Leelanau County, MI, Mackinac County, MI, Menominee County, MI, Montmorency County, MI, Otsego County, MI, Schoolcraft County, MI, Brown County, WI, Clark County, WI, Door County, WI, Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln 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, Taylor County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 10:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLincoln43 min
Jun 24, 10:19 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHPrice21 min
Jun 24, 10:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBOneida44 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 101 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 2005-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 328 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 2005-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 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
328 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-337 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1330 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 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 24, 11:39 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDelta, Dickinson, Menominee96 min
Jun 24, 1:54 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Delta and 9 more66 min
Jun 24, 3:40 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Delta and 8 more35 min
Jun 23, 9:17 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBayfield, Douglas58 min
Jun 24, 7:58 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, Langlade, Lincoln and 7 more92 min
Jun 24, 3:19 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrawford, Dane, Grant, Green, Iowa, Lafayette and 3 more86 min
Jun 24, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCrawford, Grant, Iowa, Juneau, Lafayette, Monroe and 3 more7 hr
Jun 24, 6:22 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Brown, Calumet, Columbia, Crawford, Dane and 26 more23 min
Jun 24, 6:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCColumbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Green Lake and 10 more5 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.