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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 243
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 10, 2016, 3:19 PM CDT for 12 counties in Iowa; 20 counties in Minnesota; 10 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 2016, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 42 counties
Allamakee County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Howard County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Worth County, IA, Blue Earth County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Houston County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, Mower County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Winona County, MN, Adams County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Richland County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vernon County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- 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
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Waseca, Watonwan | 62 min |
| Jun 10, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 71 min |
| Jun 10, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 4:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Trempealeau | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 4:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 4 hr |
| Jun 10, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 33 min |
| Jun 10, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet | 40 min |
| Jun 10, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark, Jackson | 68 min |
| Jun 10, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe, Trempealeau | 51 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 746 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -336 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clinton, Jackson | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 12:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Kossuth, O'Brien, Osceola and 2 more | 88 min |
| Jun 10, 2:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 96 min |
| Jun 10, 5:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Howard, Kossuth and 5 more | 114 min |
| Jun 9, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kittson | 4 hr |
| Jun 10, 2:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Barron, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 10, 5:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Calumet, Clark, Eau Claire, Florence, Forest and 18 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Calumet, Columbia, Dodge, Door, Fond du Lac and 16 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Wisconsin, 2016Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2016
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.