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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Milwaukee, WI

March 8, 2000Dodge County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 2000, 6:37 PM CST for Dodge County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 38 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 8, 2000, 6:37 PM CST (00:37 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 2000, 7:15 PM CST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Dodge County, WI

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 8, 6:50 PM CST	Hail 1	Horicon, 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 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 090043
TORMKE
WIC027-090115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DODGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 715 PM CST

* AT 641 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST
  DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED OVER JUNEAU...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  JUNEAU BY 640 PM CST.
  HORICON BY 645 PM CST.
  MAYVILLE BY 655 PM CST.
  LOMIRA BY 710 PM CST.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATrION. 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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 8, 6:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MKX	Milwaukee	33 min
Mar 8, 6:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington	52 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

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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.