Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 825
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 3, 2011, 12:48 AM CDT for 5 counties in Illinois; Clayton County, Fayette County, Iowa; 12 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 3, 2011, 12:48 AM CDT (05:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2011, 6:33 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Clayton County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Boone County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, McHenry County, IL, Stephenson County, IL, Winnebago County, IL, Dane County, WI, Grant County, WI, Green County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Jefferson County, WI, Kenosha County, WI, Lafayette County, WI, Milwaukee County, WI, Racine County, WI, Rock County, WI, Walworth County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:49 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
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Clayton | 66 min |
| Sep 3, 1:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Fayette | 4 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Crawford, Grant, Richland | 50 min |
| Sep 3, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 47 min |
| Sep 3, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clayton, Fayette | 47 min |
| Sep 3, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette, Sauk | 29 min |
| Sep 3, 2:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Clayton | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Green | 45 min |
| Sep 3, 3:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Green, Jefferson, Rock | 66 min |
| Sep 3, 4:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson, Waukesha | 28 min |
| Sep 3, 4:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson, Washington, Waukesha | 49 min |
| Sep 3, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Ozaukee | 46 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1861 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 11:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Jo Daviess, Ogle, Stephenson, Whiteside, Winnebago | 94 min |
| Sep 3, 12:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy and 13 more | 66 min |
| Sep 3, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bureau, Cook, DuPage, Ford, Fulton, Grundy and 23 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 3, 5:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Cook, DuPage, Ford, Fulton, Grundy and 23 more | 58 min |
| Sep 2, 10:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 22 more | 86 min |
| Sep 2, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Buchanan, Cass and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 3, 3:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dane, Green, Iowa, Jefferson, Kenosha, Lafayette and 6 more | 95 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Wisconsin, 2011Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 2011Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 2011Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2011
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.