Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 809
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 3, 2006, 6:39 PM CDT for 33 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 3, 2006, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2006, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 33 counties
Adams County, WI, Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Clark County, WI, Columbia County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Door County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Portage County, WI, Price County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI, Wood County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 80%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Menominee, Oconto | 61 min |
| Oct 3, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Door | 44 min |
| Oct 3, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Jackson, Trempealeau | 79 min |
| Oct 3, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette, Oconto | 25 min |
| Oct 3, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Door | 26 min |
| Oct 3, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Door | 20 min |
| Oct 3, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark, Jackson | 33 min |
| Oct 4, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marathon | 47 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -620 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 8:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Green, Jefferson, Kenosha and 7 more | 64 min |
| Oct 3, 12:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barron, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Polk, Rusk and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 3, 2:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, Jackson and 5 more | 93 min |
| Oct 3, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buffalo, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, La Crosse, Pepin and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 3, 6:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barron, Burnett, Langlade, Lincoln, Marathon, Menominee and 8 more | 84 min |
| Oct 3, 6:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, Jackson and 6 more | 85 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.