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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Milwaukee, WI

September 2, 2002Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Sep 2, 2002, 9:07 PM CDT for Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Sep 2, 2002, 9:07 PM CDT (02:07 UTC)
Expired: Sep 2, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fond du Lac County, WI

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 2, 9:30 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Eden, WI	A tornado, rated as F1 with winds of about 78 to 87 knots (90 to 100 mph) damaged three, large, cover-all, dairy barns. Severe damage was noted on the western-most barn. In addition, some trees were uprooted or had limbs ripped off. The three barns were par

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 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 88 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: 1990 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1037 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 5.9

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The text

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

688 
WFUS53 KMKX 030207
TORMKE
WIC039-030300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
907 PM CDT MON SEP 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FOND DU LAC COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 907 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 SOUTH OF
  ROSENDALE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF WAUPUN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  OAKFIELD AT 915 PM CDT.
  EDEN AT 925 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 4390 8888 4367 8888 4363 8836 4386 8825

DAVIS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 2, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green Lake, Marquette	46 min
Sep 2, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac	57 min
Sep 2, 9:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac	53 min
Sep 2, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge	62 min
Sep 2, 9:35 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		2 hr
Sep 2, 9:35 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		2 hr
Sep 2, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington	58 min
Sep 2, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac	35 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.