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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 152
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 12, 2014, 3:49 PM CDT for 12 counties in Illinois; Clayton County, Iowa; 19 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2014, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2014, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 32 counties
Clayton County, IA, Boone County, IL, Cook County, IL, DeKalb County, IL, DuPage County, IL, Kane County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Lake County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Lee County, IL, McHenry County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Winnebago County, IL, Columbia County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Dane County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Grant 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, Richland County, WI, Rock County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Walworth County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
33 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Rock, Walworth, Waukesha | 63 min |
| May 12, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 47 min |
| May 12, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Dodge, Jefferson | 44 min |
| May 12, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 23 min |
| May 12, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 45 min |
| May 12, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Waukesha | 33 min |
| May 12, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 26 min |
| May 12, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 46 min |
| May 12, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | LaSalle | 67 min |
| May 12, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, Lake | 48 min |
| May 12, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DeKalb, LaSalle | 58 min |
| May 12, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage | 36 min |
| May 12, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Walworth, Waukesha | 33 min |
| May 12, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, Kane, Lake, McHenry | 53 min |
| May 12, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, Lake | 47 min |
| May 12, 7:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry | 6 hr |
| May 12, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lee, Ogle | 60 min |
| May 12, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Racine | 13 min |
| May 12, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DeKalb, Kane | 53 min |
| May 12, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Racine, Walworth, Waukesha | 31 min |
| May 12, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 27 min |
| May 12, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ogle, Winnebago | 54 min |
| May 12, 7:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Waukesha | 113 min |
| May 12, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, Kane | 51 min |
| May 12, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, Kane, Lake, McHenry | 65 min |
| May 12, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ogle | 64 min |
| May 12, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Winnebago | 66 min |
| May 12, 8:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Boone, Ogle, Winnebago | 6 hr |
| May 12, 8:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 3 hr |
| May 12, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Boone | 66 min |
| May 12, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock, Walworth | 36 min |
| May 12, 9:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Milwaukee, Waukesha | 3 hr |
| May 12, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage, Will | 45 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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 850 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 8:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeWitt, Ford, Iroquois, Livingston, McLean | 58 min |
| May 12, 9:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 13 more | 84 min |
| May 12, 10:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Lake and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 11:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Fulton, Hancock and 16 more | 2 hr |
| May 12, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry and 8 more | 7 hr |
| May 12, 1:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Lake and 6 more | 54 min |
| May 12, 3:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Hancock, Henderson, Jo Daviess, McDonough, Mercer and 2 more | 54 min |
| May 12, 6:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Jo Daviess, Lake, McHenry, Stephenson, Winnebago | 64 min |
| May 11, 7:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Clarke and 21 more | 56 min |
| May 11, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 38 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 9:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 31 more | 59 min |
| May 11, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 6 hr |
| May 11, 11:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 40 more | 59 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.