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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 304

June 3, 20179 counties in Michigan; 10 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 3, 2017, 4:15 PM EDT for 9 counties in Michigan; 10 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 2017, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2017, 10:37 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt

Counties Baraga County, MI, Delta County, MI, Dickinson County, MI, Gogebic County, MI, Houghton County, MI, Iron County, MI, Marquette County, MI, Menominee County, MI, Ontonagon County, MI, Door County, WI, Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Vilas County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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
10%
Ten or more severe hail reports
30%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
60%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTGogebic, Houghton, Iron, Ontonagon59 min
Jun 3, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBVilas60 min
Jun 3, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTIron56 min
Jun 3, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBFlorence, Forest61 min
Jun 3, 5:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTDickinson, Iron52 min
Jun 3, 6:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMQTGogebic, Iron3 hr
Jun 3, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBFlorence, Forest, Marinette56 min
Jun 3, 7:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLanglade, Marinette, Menominee, Oconto58 min
Jun 3, 8:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarinette, Menominee, Oconto, Shawano62 min
Jun 3, 8:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBDoor60 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 135 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 2017-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 33 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2017-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 148 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 3:48 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, Menominee, Ontonagon57 min
Jun 3, 6:58 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Delta, Grand Traverse, Leelanau and 5 more92 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.