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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 536

June 27, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 27, 2005, 2:00 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 2005, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2005, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 100 counties

Adair County, IA, Audubon County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Boone County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Buena Vista County, IA, Butler County, IA, Calhoun County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cass County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clay County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Greene County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Guthrie County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Howard County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Ida County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Madison County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Marion County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Monona County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Polk County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Sac County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Story County, IA, Tama County, IA, Warren County, IA, Webster County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Worth County, IA, Wright County, IA, Anoka County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mower County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Washington County, NE, Barron County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Stearns	50 min
Jun 27, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	37 min
Jun 27, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Greene	43 min
Jun 27, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Guthrie	60 min
Jun 27, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Stearns, Wright	61 min
Jun 27, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Hennepin	56 min
Jun 27, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Sherburne	53 min
Jun 27, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood	31 min
Jun 27, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hardin	43 min
Jun 27, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Ramsey	30 min
Jun 27, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Franklin	35 min
Jun 27, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Wright	58 min
Jun 27, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Story	65 min
Jun 27, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Waseca	49 min
Jun 27, 6:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Wright	3 hr
Jun 27, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Butler	19 min
Jun 27, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Barron, Dunn	43 min
Jun 27, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka	41 min
Jun 27, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Rice	51 min
Jun 27, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Anoka, Ramsey	35 min
Jun 27, 6:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Waseca	38 min
Jun 27, 7:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Polk	25 min
Jun 27, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Tama	44 min
Jun 27, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota	50 min
Jun 27, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Waseca	45 min
Jun 27, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Waseca	45 min
Jun 27, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Barron, Polk	60 min
Jun 27, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Saint Croix	46 min
Jun 27, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Sibley	53 min
Jun 27, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dunn	57 min
Jun 27, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dunn	64 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 768 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -175 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1390 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 12:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 33 more	2 hr
Jun 27, 3:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 60 more	83 min
Jun 27, 6:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk and 56 more	118 min
Jun 26, 7:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods and 9 more	2 hr
Jun 26, 7:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca	2 hr
Jun 26, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clay, Kittson, Norman, Traverse, Wilkin	8 hr
Jun 26, 9:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Kittson, Norman, Traverse, Wilkin	92 min
Jun 26, 10:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater, Hubbard, Itasca and 8 more	115 min
Jun 26, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard and 11 more	6 hr
Jun 27, 1:51 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Polk, Wilkin	54 min
Jun 27, 2:59 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hubbard, Koochiching	61 min
Jun 27, 12:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Benton, Brown, Carlton, Cass, Chippewa and 22 more	2 hr
Jun 27, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing and 8 more	5 hr
Jun 27, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anoka, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Pine, Ramsey and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 27, 3:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Box Butte, Dawes, Garden, Grant, Morrill, Scotts Bluff and 2 more	2 hr
Jun 27, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes and 11 more	7 hr
Jun 27, 4:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Furnas, Hayes, Hitchcock and 2 more	118 min
Jun 27, 6:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Furnas, Hayes, Hitchcock and 2 more	90 min
Jun 27, 1:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Crawford, Florence, Forest, Juneau, Langlade and 15 more	2 hr
Jun 27, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Ashland, Bayfield, Florence, Forest, Iron, Langlade and 7 more	7 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.