Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2003, 10:39 PM CDT for Dodge County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 66 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, 10:39 PM CDT (03:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2003, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 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), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:38 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, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1098 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
535 WFUS53 KMKX 110339 TORMKX WIC027-110445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1039 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DODGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1039 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 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOWELL...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF BEAVER DAM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BEAVER DAM AT 1045 PM CDT. JUNEAU AT 1050 PM CDT. HORICON AT 1100 PM CDT. KEKOSKEE AT 1120 PM CDT. NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE LAT...LON 4340 8903 4328 8886 4346 8842 4362 8863 $$ GEHRING
The 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, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dane | 64 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, 11:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac, Washington | 56 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.