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Tornado Watch 106
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 30, 2005, 2:15 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2005, 2:15 PM CST (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2005, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 86 counties
Allamakee County, IA, Benton County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Butler County, IA, Cedar County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Clinton County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Howard County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Linn County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Scott County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Worth County, IA, Boone County, IL, Bureau County, IL, Carroll County, IL, DeKalb County, IL, Henry County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, Kane County, IL, Knox County, IL, Lee County, IL, McHenry County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Stephenson County, IL, Warren County, IL, Whiteside County, IL, Winnebago County, IL, Dodge County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Houston County, MN, Mower County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Winona County, MN, Adams County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Columbia County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Dane County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Grant County, WI, Green County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Jefferson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, Kenosha County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Lafayette County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Richland County, WI, Rock County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vernon County, WI, Walworth County, WI, Waukesha County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Wood County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 2:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry, Rock Island, Whiteside | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ARX | Mitchell | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 2:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ARX | Mower | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 2:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Bureau, Putnam | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 2:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 2:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 2:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fillmore | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 2:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ARX | Olmsted | 67 min |
| Mar 30, 2:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac | 42 min |
| Mar 30, 2:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Carroll, Whiteside | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 2:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 2:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Houston | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 2:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 3:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dodge | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 3:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 3:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Bureau | 26 min |
| Mar 30, 3:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 64 min |
| Mar 30, 3:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | La Crosse | 34 min |
| Mar 30, 3:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ogle | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 3:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Stephenson | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 3:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 3:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge | 28 min |
| Mar 30, 4:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Dodge | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 4:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 4:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Green, Rock | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 6:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DeKalb | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 6:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DeKalb, LaSalle, Lee | 56 min |
| Mar 30, 6:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Bureau | 20 min |
| Mar 30, 7:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Boone, McHenry | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 7:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 71 min |
| Mar 30, 7:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 59 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1316 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 10:46 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Carroll, Cass, Fulton, Hancock and 14 more | 119 min |
| Mar 30, 11:05 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Henry and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:08 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 49 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:55 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Boone, Bureau, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 49 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:23 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Henry and 15 more | 97 min |
| Mar 30, 3:18 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Champaign, Clark, Coles, Cook, Crawford and 28 more | 117 min |
| Mar 30, 3:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Jo Daviess, Lee, McHenry and 4 more | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 5:24 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 30 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 6:03 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 32 more | 117 min |
| Mar 30, 8:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Butler, Calhoun and 38 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:50 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 29 more | 85 min |
| Mar 30, 1:14 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Franklin, Hamilton and 7 more | 61 min |
| Mar 30, 2:00 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Franklin, Hamilton and 7 more | 30 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.