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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 299
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 25, 2016, 3:41 PM CDT for 24 counties in Minnesota; 15 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2016, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 39 counties
Anoka County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Steele County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Ashland County, WI, Barron County, WI, Bayfield County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Iron County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Price County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Washburn County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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
- 30%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Washburn | 46 min |
| Jun 25, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Isanti | 25 min |
| Jun 25, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Bayfield | 53 min |
| Jun 25, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Burnett, Sawyer, Washburn | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Iron, Price, Sawyer | 47 min |
| Jun 25, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Iron, Price | 46 min |
| Jun 25, 9:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DLH | Price, Sawyer | 4 hr |
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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 952 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1116 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 4:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, Menominee, Ontonagon | 86 min |
| Jun 25, 6:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gogebic | 56 min |
| Jun 25, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Marquette and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 25, 2:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Roseau | 91 min |
| Jun 25, 12:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton and 45 more | 115 min |
| Jun 25, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing and 15 more | 5 hr |
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.