Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 2000, 6:48 PM CST for Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports 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, 6:48 PM CST (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2000, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fond du Lac County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 7:05 PM CST | Hail 1.5 | Byron, WI | |
| Mar 8, 7:20 PM CST | Hail 1 | Campbellsport, 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, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKX 090049 TORMKE WIC039-090130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 648 PM CST WED MAR 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FOND DU LAC COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 730 PM CST * AT 648 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 12 MILES SOUTH OF OAKFIELD...OR 4 MILES WEST OF MAYVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... OAKFIELD BY 700 PM CST. FOND DU LAC BY 715 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. DAVIS
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, 6:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge | 38 min |
| Mar 8, 6:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.