Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 705
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 9, 2005, 5:45 AM CDT for 4 counties in Michigan; 12 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2005, 5:45 AM CDT (10:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2005, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Dickinson County, MI, Gogebic County, MI, Iron County, MI, Menominee County, MI, Ashland County, WI, Bayfield County, WI, Burnett County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Iron County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Price County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Vilas County, WI, Washburn County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:47 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
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 6:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Douglas | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 6:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Bayfield | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 6:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Iron | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 7:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Gogebic | 56 min |
| Aug 9, 7:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Iron | 27 min |
| Aug 9, 8:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Vilas | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 8:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Gogebic, Iron | 67 min |
| Aug 9, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Forest | 26 min |
| Aug 9, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Dickinson | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 10:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Menominee | 49 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 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 295 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
- 2923 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 5:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gogebic, Ontonagon | 115 min |
| Aug 9, 9:10 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alger, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Delta, Emmet and 3 more | 95 min |
| Aug 9, 9:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alger, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Delta, Emmet and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 9, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Menominee | 7 hr |
| Aug 9, 11:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barron, Burnett, Chippewa, Douglas, Dunn, Iron and 6 more | 84 min |
| Aug 9, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dunn, Pepin, Pierce | 7 hr |
| Aug 9, 5:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Crawford, Jackson, Juneau, La Crosse and 10 more | 94 min |
| Aug 9, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Richland, Vernon | 4 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.