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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Milwaukee, WI

March 8, 2000Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 2000, 6:12 PM CST for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Mar 8, 2000, 6:12 PM CST (00:12 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 2000, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Milwaukee County, WI

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 8, 2:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 630 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 762 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 2.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMKX 090014
TORMKE
WIC079-090045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
612 PM CST WED MAR 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL MILWAUKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 645 PM CST

* AT 612 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS        
  PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED OVER ST. FRANCIS...               
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  GREENFIELD BY 600 PM CST.
  SOUTH MILWAUKEE BY 605 PM CST.
  CUDAHY BY 610 PM CST.
  SHOREWOOD BY 625 PM CST.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. DO NOT RUN OUTSIDE TO FIND THE
TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR.

LAT...LON 4298 8807 4286 8789 4322 8731Z 4341 8757
DAVIS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 8, 6:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington	52 min
Mar 8, 6:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dodge	38 min
Mar 8, 6:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Milwaukee, Waukesha	46 min
Mar 8, 6:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac	42 min
Mar 8, 7:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Ozaukee, Washington	49 min
Mar 8, 7:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Milwaukee, Waukesha	26 min
Mar 8, 7:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Sheboygan	65 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.