Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 707
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 9, 2005, 1:45 PM CDT for Menominee County, Michigan; 9 counties in Minnesota; 33 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2005, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2005, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties
Menominee County, MI, Dodge County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Houston County, MN, Mower County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Washington County, MN, Winona County, MN, Adams County, WI, Brown County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Forest County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Portage County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI, Wood County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 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
32 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 30 min |
| Aug 9, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Taylor | 84 min |
| Aug 9, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Taylor | 51 min |
| Aug 9, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 63 min |
| Aug 9, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marathon | 62 min |
| Aug 9, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Langlade | 53 min |
| Aug 9, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 54 min |
| Aug 9, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 65 min |
| Aug 9, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Lincoln, Marathon | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oconto | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pepin, Pierce | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 62 min |
| Aug 9, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Langlade | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Eau Claire | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 76 min |
| Aug 9, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Trempealeau | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marathon | 66 min |
| Aug 9, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Olmsted | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark, Jackson | 86 min |
| Aug 9, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Mower | 56 min |
| Aug 9, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano | 56 min |
| Aug 9, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Langlade, Menominee | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Juneau, Monroe | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | La Crosse | 19 min |
| Aug 9, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Wood | 55 min |
| Aug 9, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Adams | 38 min |
| Aug 9, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage, Waushara | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 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 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 1641 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1095 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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, 5:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, Menominee | 5 hr |
| 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 8, 11:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Clay, Wilkin | 97 min |
| Aug 9, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Crow Wing, Douglas, Grant and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 9, 2:36 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Crow Wing, Douglas, Grant and 10 more | 114 min |
| Aug 9, 11:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Faribault, Jackson, Le Sueur and 11 more | 95 min |
| Aug 9, 11:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Hennepin, Isanti and 11 more | 84 min |
| Aug 9, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 9, 5:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Winona | 94 min |
| Aug 9, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Richland, Vernon | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Wisconsin, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Michigan, 2005Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2005
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.