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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 6, 2003Dodge County, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2003, 5:16 PM CDT for Dodge County, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 44 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: Jul 6, 2003, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 6, 11:45 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 682 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 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.

109 
WFUS53 KMKX 062216
TORMKX
WIC027-039-062300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
515 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 515 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR     
  MAYVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CAMPBELLSPORT AT 530 PM CDT.
  EDEN AT 535 PM CDT.

A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...
SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...
MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

LAT...LON 4354 8827 4354 8838 4350 8838 4346 8843
          4360 8861 4381 8825 4360 8817

$$

REM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 6:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Sauk	56 min
Jul 6, 7:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Rock	32 min
Jul 6, 7:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Jefferson	46 min
Jul 6, 8:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Walworth	45 min
Jul 6, 8:02 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		118 min
Jul 6, 8:02 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		118 min
Jul 6, 8:02 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		118 min
Jul 6, 8:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Waukesha	54 min
Jul 6, 9:05 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		115 min
Jul 6, 9:05 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		115 min
Jul 6, 2:05 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		115 min
Jul 6, 2:05 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		115 min
Jul 6, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Rock, Walworth	34 min
Jul 6, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Kenosha, Racine, Walworth	64 min
Jul 6, 4:02 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		118 min
Jul 6, 4:02 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		118 min
Jul 6, 4:02 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		118 min
Jul 6, 5:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Washington	54 min
Jul 6, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac, Ozaukee, Sheboygan	52 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.