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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 480
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 3, 2007, 4:56 PM CDT for 25 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2007, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2007, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 25 counties
Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Columbia County, WI, Dane County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Jefferson County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Milwaukee County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Portage County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waukesha County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI, Wood County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 5:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Marquette | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marquette | 90 min |
| Jul 3, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 76 min |
| Jul 3, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 32 min |
| Jul 3, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Winnebago | 23 min |
| Jul 3, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Dodge, Iowa | 93 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 1146 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 11:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin and 4 more | 86 min |
| Jul 3, 12:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Buffalo, Burnett and 21 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 3, 4:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Calumet, Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green Lake and 12 more | 58 min |
| Jul 3, 5:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Buffalo, Burnett and 21 more | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Clark, Columbia, Crawford, Dane and 16 more | 6 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.