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Tornado Watch 411

June 5, 200515 counties in Michigan; Door County, Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 5, 2005, 8:55 PM EDT for 15 counties in Michigan; Door County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2005, 8:55 PM EDT (00:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2005, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Alger County, MI, Antrim County, MI, Benzie County, MI, Charlevoix County, MI, Crawford County, MI, Delta County, MI, Emmet County, MI, Grand Traverse County, MI, Kalkaska County, MI, Leelanau County, MI, Luce County, MI, Mackinac County, MI, Marquette County, MI, Otsego County, MI, Schoolcraft County, MI, Door County, WI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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 5, 8:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Marquette	63 min
Jun 5, 9:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Door	45 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 209 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 527 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS20 KWNS 060057
SEL1  
SPC WW 060057
MIZ000-LHZ000-LMZ000-LSZ000-060500-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 411
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
855 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF 

       EASTERN UPPER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN
       LAKE HURON
       LAKE MICHIGAN
       LAKE SUPERIOR

EFFECTIVE THIS SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING FROM 855 PM UNTIL
100 AM EDT.

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND
GUSTS TO 65 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE
AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 90 STATUTE MILES
EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF PELLSTON
MICHIGAN TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ESCANABA MICHIGAN.  FOR A
COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE
UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU1).

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...CONTINUE...WW 406...WW 407...WW 408...WW
409...WW 410...

DISCUSSION...MCS WITH EMBEDDED SUPERCELLS NOW OVER NE WI AND THE WRN
UPR PENIN SHOULD CONTINUE NEWD TONIGHT...DOWNSTREAM FROM STRONG
MN/WI SHORTWAVE IMPULSE.  COMBINATION OF LARGE SCALE FORCING FOR
ASCENT AND MODERATE DEEP SHEAR /WITH AT LEAST A MODEST DEGREE OF
DIRECTIONAL SHEAR/ SUGGEST CONTINUED THREAT FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES
IN ADDITION TO BOWING SEGMENTS WITH HAIL/HIGH WIND.

AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1.5 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE
WIND GUSTS TO 55 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO
500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24030.


...CORFIDI

443,0842 441,0870 464,0873 470,0845

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 8:05 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alger, Baraga, Charlevoix, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic and 9 more	85 min
Jun 5, 10:20 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alger, Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa and 14 more	85 min
Jun 6, 6:04 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Grant, Lafayette	86 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.