Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 697
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 17, 2008, 12:14 PM CDT for 5 counties in Michigan; 30 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 2008, 12:14 PM CDT (17:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2008, 5:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 35 counties
Dickinson County, MI, Gogebic County, MI, Iron County, MI, Menominee County, MI, Ontonagon County, MI, Ashland County, WI, Bayfield County, WI, Brown County, WI, Burnett County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Door County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Iron County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Portage County, WI, Price County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Vilas County, WI, Washburn County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI, Wood County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 194 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett, Douglas, Washburn | 47 min |
| Jul 17, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Bayfield, Douglas, Sawyer, Washburn | 26 min |
| Jul 17, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oneida | 25 min |
| Jul 17, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Forest | 52 min |
| Jul 17, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Iron | 39 min |
| Jul 17, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette, Oconto | 48 min |
| Jul 17, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Door | 46 min |
| Jul 17, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Delta, Menominee | 34 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 983 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 8:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Branch, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Gratiot and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 17, 8:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buffalo, Pepin, Pierce, Trempealeau | 65 min |
| Jul 17, 10:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Crawford, Dunn and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 17, 2:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calumet, Clark, Columbia, Crawford and 30 more | 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.