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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Milwaukee, WI

May 30, 2003Dane County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2003, 5:28 PM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 47 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 30, 2003, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 47 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), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 30, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2273 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 187 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.

980 
WFUS53 KMKX 302228
TORMKX
WIC025-302315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
527 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DANE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 527 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 NEAR VERONA...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SHOREWOOD HILLS AT 530 PM CDT.
  FITCHBURG AT 535 PM CDT.
  MONONA AT 540 PM CDT.
  MCFARLAND AT 545 PM CDT.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...ABANDON THEM AND GET INSIDE A 
REINFORCED SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE 
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4310 8956 4290 8959 4287 8904 4305 8901

$$

REM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Iowa, Lafayette, Sauk	40 min
May 30, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dane, Iowa	65 min
May 30, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Marquette	64 min
May 30, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Green, Lafayette	45 min
May 30, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green Lake	29 min
May 30, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dane	40 min
May 30, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Green, Rock	34 min
May 30, 6:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac, Green Lake	59 min
May 30, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		117 min
May 30, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		117 min
May 30, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		117 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.