Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Sep 1, 2000, 4:38 PM CDT for Columbia County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 1, 2000, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Columbia County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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 was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 4:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Poynette, WI |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 350 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -302 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 823 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMKX 012140 TORMKE WIC021-012245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI 438 PM CDT FRI SEP 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 438 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO LOCATED 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARLINGTON... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... RIO AT 445 PM CDT. DOYLESTOWN AT 455 PM CDT. FALL RIVER AT 500 PM CDT. COLUMBUS AT 505 PM CDT. 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 4347 8940 4330 8941 4330 8903 4348 8904 MK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 35 min |
| Sep 1, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 31 min |
| Sep 1, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marquette | 62 min |
| Sep 1, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 67 min |
| Sep 1, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dane | 56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.