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Tornado Watch 395
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 4, 2005, 6:15 PM EDT for 6 counties in Michigan; 7 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2005, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2005, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Baraga County, MI, Gogebic County, MI, Houghton County, MI, Iron County, MI, Marquette County, MI, Ontonagon County, MI, Ashland County, WI, Bayfield County, WI, Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Iron County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Vilas County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 6:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Ashland | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 7:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Ashland | 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 5:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gogebic, Iron, Menominee, Ontonagon | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Green Lake and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Buffalo, Calumet, Chippewa, Clark and 37 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Jefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee and 7 more | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Barron, Brown, Buffalo, Calumet, Chippewa and 31 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, 2005Tornado Watches in Michigan, 2005Every tornado 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.