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Tornado Watch 185
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 19, 2013, 5:25 PM CDT for Kanabec County, Mille Lacs County, Pine County, Minnesota; 16 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 2013, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2013, 10:13 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Kanabec County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Pine County, MN, Ashland County, WI, Barron County, WI, Burnett County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Iron County, WI, Jackson County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Price County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Washburn County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Sawyer | 46 min |
| May 19, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo, Trempealeau | 59 min |
| May 19, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Dunn, Polk, Saint Croix | 39 min |
| May 19, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 46 min |
| May 19, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Sawyer | 28 min |
| May 19, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Sawyer, Washburn | 42 min |
| May 19, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Burnett, Sawyer, Washburn | 36 min |
| May 19, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Polk, Rusk | 19 min |
| May 19, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo, Trempealeau | 33 min |
| May 19, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark, Jackson, La Crosse, Trempealeau | 76 min |
| May 19, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 41 min |
| May 19, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Eau Claire | 39 min |
| May 19, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Bayfield, Douglas, Sawyer | 42 min |
| May 19, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Sawyer, Washburn | 25 min |
| May 19, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Crow Wing, Pine | 47 min |
| May 19, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo, Trempealeau | 54 min |
| May 19, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | La Crosse, Trempealeau, Vernon | 48 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 316 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
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 924 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 8:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Nobles, Rock | 117 min |
| May 18, 11:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Wilkin | 63 min |
| May 18, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Norman, Wilkin | 4 hr |
| May 19, 2:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Norman, Wilkin | 88 min |
| May 19, 11:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 14 more | 90 min |
| May 19, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 41 more | 8 hr |
| May 19, 5:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 53 more | 56 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, 2013Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2013Every tornado watch in 2013
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.