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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 6, 2000Green County, Rock County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Aug 6, 2000, 2:07 PM CDT for Green County, Rock County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 68 min. 2 reports 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: Aug 6, 2000, 2:07 PM CDT (19:07 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2000, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Green County, WI, Rock County, WI

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 6, 2:20 PM CDT	Hail 1	Brodhead, WI
Aug 6, 2:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Orfordville, 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
Aug 6, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 1267 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1049 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.3
Supercell composite: -3.2

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The text

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

070 
WFUS53 KMKX 061908 RRA
TORMKE
WIC045-105-062015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE-SULLIVAN WI
207 PM CDT SUN AUG 6 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ROCK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
  GREEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 207 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST
  DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  ALBANY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF MONROE...MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ALBANY AT 215 PM CDT.
  BRODHEAD AT 220 PM CDT.
  EVANSVILLE AT 230 PM CDT.
  ORFORDVILLE AT 235 PM CDT.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS

LAT...LON 4277 8963 4259 8965 4253 8881 4278 8884
$$
DAVIS

DAVIS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green	66 min
Aug 6, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge, Jefferson, Washington, Waukesha	61 min
Aug 6, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Walworth	63 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.