Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Milwaukee, WI
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.
- 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
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 |
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.