Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2003, 8:56 PM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 64 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
- May 10, 2003, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dane County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1566 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 910 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.8
- Supercell composite
- 12.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
971
WFUS53 KMKX 110156
TORMKX
WIC025-110300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
856 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WESTERN DANE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
* AT 856 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLUE MOUNDS...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST
OF MINERAL POINT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
BLUE MOUNDS AT 930 PM CDT.
MOUNT HOREB AT 940 PM CDT.
BLACK EARTH AT 955 PM CDT.
CROSS PLAINS AT 1000 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 4319 8986 4292 8984 4286 8982 4301 8950
4330 8951 4327 8974
$$
HENTZThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marquette | 48 min |
| May 10, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake, Marquette | 38 min |
| May 10, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 65 min |
| May 10, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson | 48 min |
| May 10, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson | 37 min |
| May 10, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Iowa, Sauk | 66 min |
| May 10, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane | 55 min |
| May 10, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 60 min |
| May 10, 10:21 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 54 min | |
| May 10, 10:21 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 54 min | |
| May 10, 10:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge | 66 min |
| May 10, 11:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac, Washington | 56 min |
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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.