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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 10, 1993Columbia County, Dane County, Sauk County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 1993, 5:49 PM CDT for Columbia County, Dane County, Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 1993, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1993, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Columbia County, WI, Dane County, WI, Sauk County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 1993-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 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 1993-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-225 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1131 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 102250
TORMSN
WIC021-025-111-102345-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
ISSUED BY MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
549 PM CDT SAT JUL 10 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...SOUTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY...WESTERN DANE COUNTY
   ...SOUTHEASTERN SAUK COUNTY
 
AT 540 PM...THE IOWA COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR
BARNEVELD...WHICH IS 27 MILES WEST OF MADISON. THE FUNNEL WAS MOVING
EAST-NORTHEAST NEAR 40 MPH TOWARD SAUK CITY...ARLINGTON...AND MADISON.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
 
JOHNSTON/HAASE
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBIowa, Richland, Sauk54 min
Jul 10, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBIowa60 min
Jul 10, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBAdams, Juneau54 min
Jul 10, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarquette, Waushara54 min
Jul 10, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBColumbia34 min
Jul 10, 6:36 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBDane39 min

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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.