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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 345
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 22, 2014, 11:54 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2014, 11:54 AM CDT (16:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 53 counties
Allamakee County, IA, Benton County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Cedar County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Clinton County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Henry County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Lee County, IA, Linn County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Scott County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Washington County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Carroll County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Warren County, IL, Whiteside County, IL, Houston County, MN, Winona County, MN, Clark County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Adams County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Grant County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Lafayette County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Richland County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vernon County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:56 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 12:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton, Linn | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock, Henderson, McDonough | 40 min |
| Jun 22, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henderson, McDonough, Warren | 44 min |
| Jun 22, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | McDonough | 33 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 11:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hancock, Henderson, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren | 101 min |
| Jun 22, 2:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Knox and 5 more | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 5:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Cass, Fulton, Hancock and 22 more | 92 min |
| Jun 21, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Ida, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 11:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Kossuth and 7 more | 93 min |
| Jun 22, 12:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Ringgold, Wayne | 66 min |
| Jun 21, 8:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle and 11 more | 91 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.