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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 6, 2003Fond du Lac County, Ozaukee County, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2003, 5:53 PM CDT for Fond du Lac County, Ozaukee County, Sheboygan 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: Jul 6, 2003, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Fond du Lac County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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, 10.9 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.

681 
WFUS53 KMKX 062253
TORMKX
WIC039-089-117-062345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 552 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 16 MILES WEST OF RANDOM
  LAKE...OR ABOUT NEAR KEWASKUM...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RANDOM LAKE AT 620 PM CDT.
  CEDAR GROVE AT 630 PM CDT.
  OOSTBURG AT 635 PM CDT.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4356 8801 4346 8800 4349 8768 4366 8778
          4359 8826 4356 8830

$$

GEHRING

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, 5:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dodge, Fond du Lac	44 min
Jul 6, 5:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Washington	54 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.