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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 410

June 19, 201214 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 19, 2012, 5:41 AM CDT for 14 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 2012, 5:41 AM CDT (10:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2012, 9:15 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt

Counties Brown County, WI, Door County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Portage County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:41 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
20%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
5%
Ten or more severe wind reports
50%
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
80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 6:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLanglade, Lincoln, Marathon, Menominee, Shawano46 min
Jun 19, 6:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBForest, Langlade, Marathon, Marinette, Menominee, Oconto and 1 more39 min
Jun 19, 7:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarinette, Menominee, Oconto, Shawano51 min
Jun 19, 8:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBDoor32 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 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 00:00Z on 2012-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1546 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 00:00Z on 2012-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 122 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1546 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.7
Supercell composite
8.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 2:39 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarron, Buffalo, Burnett, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn and 13 more66 min
Jun 19, 3:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire and 8 more5 hr
Jun 19, 4:16 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire and 8 more89 min
Jun 19, 5:11 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Door, Kewaunee, Langlade, Lincoln, Marathon and 8 more34 min
Jun 19, 6:22 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Clark, Door, Jackson, Kewaunee, Langlade and 12 more83 min
Jun 19, 7:52 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Door, Kewaunee, Langlade, Marinette, Menominee and 6 more53 min
Jun 19, 6:08 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarron, Burnett, Douglas, Polk, Washburn7 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.