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Tornado Watch 469
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 5, 2008, 9:14 PM CDT for 46 counties in Iowa; 21 counties in Minnesota; 17 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2008, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2008, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 84 counties
Allamakee County, IA, Appanoose County, IA, Benton County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Butler County, IA, Cedar County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Davis County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Henry County, IA, Howard County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Lee County, IA, Linn County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Marion County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Tama County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Washington County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Worth County, IA, Carver County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Houston County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Mower County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Winona County, MN, Buffalo County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Grant County, WI, Jackson County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Richland County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vernon County, WI
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 90%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 80%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Lucas, Wayne | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 12:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Marion, Warren | 43 min |
| Jun 6, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marion, Warren | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 12:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Jasper | 28 min |
| Jun 6, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marshall | 43 min |
| Jun 6, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Poweshiek | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 12:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Jasper, Marshall, Poweshiek, Tama | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Butler, Grundy, Tama | 52 min |
| Jun 6, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton, Iowa, Johnson, Keokuk, Linn, Washington | 55 min |
| Jun 6, 1:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Poweshiek, Tama | 24 min |
| Jun 6, 1:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Black Hawk, Tama | 34 min |
| Jun 6, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell | 43 min |
| Jun 6, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer | 39 min |
| Jun 6, 1:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Linn | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 1:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Chickasaw, Fayette, Howard, Winneshiek | 34 min |
| Jun 6, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fillmore | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Clayton, Winneshiek | 66 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Hancock, Pike | 7 hr |
| Jun 6, 4:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Hancock, Pike | 26 min |
| Jun 6, 5:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Boone, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 39 more | 61 min |
| Jun 6, 10:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 53 more | 85 min |
| Jun 6, 12:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 47 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 6, 1:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Clay, Clinton, Effingham, Fayette, Madison and 6 more | 93 min |
| Jun 5, 7:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 26 more | 91 min |
| Jun 6, 3:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Cedar, Clayton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque and 6 more | 61 min |
| Jun 6, 10:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clearwater and 18 more | 96 min |
| Jun 6, 10:28 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clay and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Koochiching | 88 min |
| Jun 6, 12:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Florence, Forest, Iron, Marinette, Oneida, Vilas | 63 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Iowa, 2008Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2008Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, 2008Every tornado watch in 2008
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.