Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 560
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 30, 2005, 12:50 AM CDT for 18 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 2005, 12:50 AM CDT (05:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2005, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Jefferson County, WI, Kenosha County, WI, Milwaukee County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Racine County, WI, Rock County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Walworth County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waukesha County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Winnebago County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:53 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Green Lake | 41 min |
| Jun 30, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson, Waukesha | 36 min |
| Jun 30, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock, Walworth | 41 min |
| Jun 30, 4:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 21 min |
| Jun 30, 4:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 40 min |
| Jun 30, 4:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 27 min |
| Jun 30, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 25 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 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1024 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 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 29, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Sawyer, Washburn | 8 hr |
| Jun 29, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, La Crosse and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 29, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 11:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Clark, Columbia, Dane, Green, Green Lake and 18 more | 67 min |
| Jun 29, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Clark, Columbia, Dane, Green, Iowa and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 29, 11:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Sawyer, Washburn | 2 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.