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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 245

June 10, 2016Delta County, Menominee County, Michigan; 22 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 10, 2016, 6:41 PM EDT for Delta County, Menominee County, Michigan; 22 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 2016, 6:41 PM EDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2016, 10:43 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 24 counties

Delta County, MI, Menominee County, MI, Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Columbia County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Door County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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
5%
Ten or more severe wind reports
40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
5%
Ten or more severe hail reports
20%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
5%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
70%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 6:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLanglade, Marinette, Menominee, Oconto49 min
Jun 10, 6:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLanglade, Menominee, Shawano54 min
Jun 10, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMenominee, Oconto30 min
Jun 10, 7:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLanglade, Marathon, Menominee, Shawano47 min
Jun 10, 7:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWaushara39 min
Jun 10, 7:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMenominee, Oconto, Shawano37 min
Jun 10, 7:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBShawano, Waupaca61 min
Jun 10, 8:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBOutagamie49 min
Jun 10, 8:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXColumbia, Green Lake, Marquette49 min
Jun 10, 8:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBBrown, Menominee, Oconto, Shawano, Waupaca46 min
Jun 10, 8:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXColumbia, Sauk53 min
Jun 10, 8:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBBrown39 min
Jun 10, 9:00 PM EDTTornado WarningGRBOutagamie17 min
Jun 10, 9:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBBrown, Calumet, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Outagamie, Winnebago31 min
Jun 10, 9:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBManitowoc33 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 40 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 12:00Z on 2016-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2016-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 143 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
697 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
302 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 3:44 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Marquette and 1 more5 hr
Jun 10, 6:09 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaraga, Dickinson, Iron, Menominee2 hr
Jun 10, 7:57 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllegan, Antrim, Barry, Benzie, Charlevoix, Clare and 22 more2 hr
Jun 9, 8:58 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDane, Green, Iowa, Lafayette, Rock, Walworth2 hr
Jun 10, 1:02 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAshland, Barron, Bayfield, Buffalo, Burnett, Chippewa and 16 more88 min
Jun 10, 3:54 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Buffalo, Clark, Columbia, Crawford, Dane and 19 more96 min
Jun 10, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Buffalo, Crawford, Jackson, Juneau, La Crosse and 4 more6 hr
Jun 10, 6:51 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Buffalo, Crawford, Jackson, Juneau, La Crosse and 4 more114 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.