Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 665
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 23, 2005, 3:10 PM CDT for 14 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2005, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2005, 5:24 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Columbia County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Jefferson County, WI, Kenosha County, WI, Milwaukee County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Racine County, WI, Rock County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Walworth County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac, Sheboygan | 42 min |
| Jul 23, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 44 min |
| Jul 23, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Washington | 40 min |
| Jul 23, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 22 min |
| Jul 23, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 53 min |
| Jul 23, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 60 min |
| Jul 23, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock | 29 min |
| Jul 23, 4:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 21 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 9:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, Jackson and 10 more | 88 min |
| Jul 23, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 23, 12:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Barron, Buffalo, Calumet, Chippewa, Clark and 21 more | 96 min |
| Jul 23, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calumet, Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac and 17 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Jefferson and 8 more | 95 min |
| Jul 23, 4:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine, Rock, Walworth | 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.