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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 8, 2003Dodge County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2003, 3:38 PM CDT for Dodge County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 52 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
Jun 8, 2003, 3:38 PM CDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2003, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dodge County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2003-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2003-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 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.

439 
WFUS53 KMKX 082038
TORMKX
WIC027-082130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
337 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DODGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 337 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF FOX LAKE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST 
  OF BEAVER DAM...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.  SPOTTER NEAR BEAVER DAM 
  LAKE REPORTED BRIEF BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN FIELD.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FOX LAKE AT 340 PM CDT.
  BEAVER DAM AT 350 PM CDT.
  JUNEAU AT 415 PM CDT.
  HORICON AT 430 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 4360 8899 4338 8901 4335 8861 4362 8859

$$
DAVIS

DAVIS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 1:55 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXFond du Lac65 min
Jun 8, 2:32 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXGreen Lake58 min
Jun 8, 2:54 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXFond du Lac66 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.