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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 822

September 2, 201122 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 2, 2011, 7:50 AM CDT for 22 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 2, 2011, 7:50 AM CDT (12:50 UTC)
Expired
Sep 2, 2011, 11:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 22 counties

Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Columbia County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Door County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Portage County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
Ten or more severe hail reports
20%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
60%

Warnings issued inside it

9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 2, 8:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXSauk23 min
Sep 2, 8:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBPortage, Waushara, Wood60 min
Sep 2, 8:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXGreen Lake, Marquette54 min
Sep 2, 8:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBPortage, Waupaca, Waushara, Winnebago41 min
Sep 2, 9:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBBrown, Calumet, Outagamie, Waupaca, Winnebago40 min
Sep 2, 9:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBBrown, Calumet, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Outagamie, Waupaca49 min
Sep 2, 10:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBBrown, Oconto, Shawano27 min
Sep 2, 10:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBBrown, Door, Kewaunee, Manitowoc19 min
Sep 2, 10:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBDoor, Kewaunee16 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 104 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2011-09-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2366 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2011-09-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2366 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-254 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
999 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 1, 8:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBurnett, Douglas93 min
Sep 2, 3:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Buffalo, Crawford, Grant, Jackson, Juneau and 5 more6 hr
Sep 2, 7:29 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Calumet, Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green Lake and 10 more61 min
Sep 2, 10:08 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Calumet, Door, Fond du Lac, Kewaunee, Manitowoc and 3 more97 min
Sep 2, 2:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrawford, Dane, Grant, Green, Iowa, Jefferson and 5 more94 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.