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Tornado Watch 371

June 15, 20224 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 15, 2022, 2:28 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 2022, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2022, 12:36 AM CDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 78 counties

Allamakee County, IA, Benton County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Butler County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Howard County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Linn County, IA, Tama County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Carroll County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, Stephenson County, IL, Fillmore County, MN, Houston County, MN, Winona County, MN, Adams County, WI, Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Clark County, WI, Columbia County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Dane County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Door County, WI, Florence County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Forest County, WI, Grant County, WI, Green County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Jefferson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, Kenosha County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Lafayette County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Milwaukee County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Portage County, WI, Racine County, WI, Richland County, WI, Rock County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vernon County, WI, Vilas County, WI, Walworth County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waukesha County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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: 70%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 50%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 40%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	La Crosse, Monroe, Vernon	43 min
Jun 15, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Crawford, Grant	28 min
Jun 15, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Richland, Vernon	40 min
Jun 15, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Delaware, Dubuque, Jones, Linn	54 min
Jun 15, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Adams, Juneau, Monroe	81 min
Jun 15, 3:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Adams, Juneau, Monroe	61 min
Jun 15, 4:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Vernon	38 min
Jun 15, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Wood	26 min
Jun 15, 4:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Jackson	10 min
Jun 15, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Sauk	51 min
Jun 15, 4:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Juneau	33 min
Jun 15, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Richland	40 min
Jun 15, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Grant, Richland	26 min
Jun 15, 4:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Iowa, Sauk	48 min
Jun 15, 4:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Adams, Juneau	43 min
Jun 15, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Buchanan, Delaware	27 min
Jun 15, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Portage, Wood	57 min
Jun 15, 4:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Sauk	42 min
Jun 15, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Adams	34 min
Jun 15, 4:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Langlade, Lincoln, Marathon	33 min
Jun 15, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Adams, Juneau	32 min
Jun 15, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Portage, Wood	31 min
Jun 15, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Waushara	60 min
Jun 15, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MKX	Marquette	58 min
Jun 15, 5:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Adams	41 min
Jun 15, 5:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Buchanan, Delaware	18 min
Jun 15, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Clayton, Fayette	36 min
Jun 15, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Marquette	36 min
Jun 15, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Waushara	32 min
Jun 15, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia	47 min
Jun 15, 5:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Clayton	20 min
Jun 15, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Sauk	24 min
Jun 15, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon, Menominee, Outagamie, Shawano, Waupaca	38 min
Jun 15, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MKX	Green Lake	51 min
Jun 15, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Langlade, Marathon	32 min
Jun 15, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Iowa, Sauk	45 min
Jun 15, 5:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia	42 min
Jun 15, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Sauk	51 min
Jun 15, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GRB	Outagamie, Waupaca, Winnebago	65 min
Jun 15, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Menominee, Shawano	19 min
Jun 15, 5:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Outagamie, Waupaca, Waushara	26 min
Jun 15, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dodge, Green Lake, Marquette	39 min
Jun 15, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GRB	Outagamie, Waupaca, Winnebago	36 min
Jun 15, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Outagamie, Shawano, Waupaca	34 min
Jun 15, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GRB	Langlade, Menominee, Oconto, Outagamie, Shawano, Waupaca	32 min
Jun 15, 6:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Forest, Langlade, Oconto	29 min
Jun 15, 6:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Marquette	39 min
Jun 15, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green Lake	35 min
Jun 15, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GRB	Brown, Calumet, Door, Kewaunee, Marinette, Oconto and 4 more	45 min
Jun 15, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Brown, Outagamie	28 min
Jun 15, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Oconto, Shawano	28 min
Jun 15, 6:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Green Lake	25 min
Jun 15, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia	37 min
Jun 15, 6:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Marinette	26 min
Jun 15, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge, Fond du Lac	41 min
Jun 15, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Marinette, Oconto	36 min
Jun 15, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Marinette	20 min
Jun 15, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane	48 min
Jun 15, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Calumet, Outagamie, Winnebago	28 min
Jun 15, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GRB	Brown, Door, Kewaunee, Marinette, Oconto	69 min
Jun 15, 6:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Dodge	39 min
Jun 15, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge, Jefferson	51 min
Jun 15, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Jefferson	55 min
Jun 15, 8:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Jefferson, Ozaukee, Rock and 3 more	3 hr
Jun 15, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Ozaukee, Washington	43 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 187 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1556 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -161 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1252 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 1:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jo Daviess, Stephenson	113 min
Jun 15, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, McDonough, Mercer and 3 more	6 hr
Jun 14, 8:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll and 19 more	2 hr
Jun 14, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Audubon, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun and 22 more	7 hr
Jun 14, 11:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Dallas and 11 more	115 min
Jun 15, 1:52 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan and 38 more	83 min
Jun 15, 3:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Allamakee, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 44 more	93 min
Jun 15, 11:18 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek	87 min
Jun 15, 3:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee	86 min
Jun 15, 5:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appanoose, Davis, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson, Johnson and 9 more	114 min
Jun 15, 5:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alger, Delta, Dickinson, Menominee, Schoolcraft	95 min
Jun 15, 5:51 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alger, Baraga, Chippewa, Delta, Dickinson, Iron and 5 more	4 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, 2022 Tornado Watches in Iowa, 2022 Tornado Watches in Illinois, 2022 Every tornado watch in 2022

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.