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Tornado Watch 514
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 22, 2010, 3:26 PM CDT for 17 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2010, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2010, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Columbia County, WI, Dane County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Green County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Jefferson County, WI, Kenosha County, WI, Lafayette County, WI, Milwaukee County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Racine County, WI, Rock County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Walworth County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- 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
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Sauk | 33 min |
| Jul 22, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dodge | 33 min |
| Jul 22, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane | 30 min |
| Jul 22, 4:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge, Washington | 48 min |
| Jul 22, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Jefferson | 48 min |
| Jul 22, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dane, Green, Iowa, Lafayette | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Washington | 22 min |
| Jul 22, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 36 min |
| Jul 22, 5:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Waukesha | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson, Waukesha | 31 min |
| Jul 22, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dane, Green, Jefferson, Rock | 36 min |
| Jul 22, 5:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dane, Iowa, Jefferson, Milwaukee, Sauk, Waukesha | 6 hr |
| Jul 22, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dane, Jefferson, Rock, Walworth, Waukesha | 64 min |
| Jul 22, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Iowa | 47 min |
| Jul 22, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 42 min |
| Jul 22, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dane, Iowa | 37 min |
| Jul 22, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Racine, Walworth, Waukesha | 58 min |
| Jul 22, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Walworth, Waukesha | 24 min |
| Jul 22, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 33 min |
| Jul 22, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Racine, Waukesha | 25 min |
| Jul 22, 7:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dodge, Washington | 92 min |
| Jul 22, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green, Rock | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 7:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Green, Rock | 6 hr |
| Jul 22, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Rock, Walworth | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 8:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 5 hr |
| Jul 22, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green, Rock | 38 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 1402 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 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 22, 3:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Dane, Grant, Green, Iowa, Jefferson and 7 more | 59 min |
| Jul 22, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Grant, Richland | 6 hr |
| Jul 22, 6:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dane, Grant, Iowa, Jefferson, Lafayette, Milwaukee and 1 more | 2 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.