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Tornado Watch 392
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 4, 2005, 3:15 PM CDT for 37 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2005, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2005, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Adams County, WI, Barron County, WI, Brown County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Columbia County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Portage County, WI, Price County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Sawyer 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), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 3:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 18 min |
| Jun 4, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Clark | 23 min |
| Jun 4, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Lincoln, Oneida | 26 min |
| Jun 4, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Clark | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Taylor | 28 min |
| Jun 4, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Taylor | 66 min |
| Jun 4, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Price | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon | 24 min |
| Jun 4, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon | 18 min |
| Jun 4, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Lincoln | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Price | 18 min |
| Jun 4, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Taylor | 33 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 633 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 042012
SEL2
SPC WW 042012
WIZ000-050300-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 392
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
315 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
WISCONSIN
EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 315 PM UNTIL
1000 PM CDT.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 65 STATUTE MILES
EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF EAU CLAIRE
WISCONSIN TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OSHKOSH WISCONSIN. FOR A
COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE
UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 389. WATCH NUMBER 389 WILL NOT BE IN
EFFECT AFTER 315 PM CDT. CONTINUE...WW 390...WW 391...
DISCUSSION...VEERING SHEAR PROFILES...VERY MOIST AND INCREASINGLY
UNSTABLE AIR MASS SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
WATCH AREA AHEAD OF S/WV TROUGH. SUPERCELLS ARE LIKELY INCLUDING A
HAIL AND TORNADO THREAT.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 23035.
...HALES
461,0914 443,0874 425,0884 442,0924SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Green Lake and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Buffalo, Calumet, Chippewa, Clark and 37 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Jefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee and 7 more | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 4:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Bayfield, Florence, Forest, Iron, Langlade and 4 more | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Bayfield, Florence, Forest, Iron, Oneida and 1 more | 7 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.