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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Milwaukee, WI

April 18, 2002Lafayette County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Apr 18, 2002, 3:29 PM CDT for Lafayette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 18, 2002, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
Expired: Apr 18, 2002, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lafayette County, WI

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 18, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 1362 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -188 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1306 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KMKX 182029
TORMKE
WIC065-182100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
329 PM CDT THU APR 18 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS EXTENDED THE

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 329 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE
  OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS
  LOCATED NEAR DARLINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  DARLINGTON AT 330 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 4274 9033 4258 9022 4258 8986 4281 8997

ZAJDEL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 18, 7:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac, Sheboygan	58 min
Apr 18, 7:25 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		65 min
Apr 18, 7:25 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		65 min
Apr 18, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Iowa, Lafayette, Sauk	57 min
Apr 18, 3:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Lafayette	23 min
Apr 18, 3:21 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		24 min
Apr 18, 3:21 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		24 min
Apr 18, 3:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Lafayette	29 min
Apr 18, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Iowa, Sauk	61 min
Apr 18, 3:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Green, Lafayette	33 min
Apr 18, 4:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Sauk	27 min
Apr 18, 4:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Sauk	29 min
Apr 18, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green, Rock	60 min
Apr 18, 4:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Rock	49 min
Apr 18, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Marquette	31 min
Apr 18, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Jefferson, Rock, Walworth	60 min
Apr 18, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane	43 min
Apr 18, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		56 min
Apr 18, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		56 min
Apr 18, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		56 min
Apr 18, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Jefferson	35 min
Apr 18, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		57 min
Apr 18, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		57 min
Apr 18, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		57 min
Apr 18, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		57 min
Apr 18, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		57 min
Apr 18, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		57 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.