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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2004, 9:35 PM CDT for Ozaukee County, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 25 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
- Jun 23, 2004, 9:35 PM CDT (02:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2004, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Ozaukee County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 371 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1067 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
027 WFUS53 KMKX 240235 TORMKX WIC089-117-240300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 935 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN SHEBOYGAN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN OZAUKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 935 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 WAUBEKA...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF SAUKVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CEDAR GROVE AT 940 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 4359 8801 4341 8803 4335 8727 4357 8725 $$ REM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Sauk | 52 min |
| Jun 23, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marquette | 47 min |
| Jun 23, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Iowa, Sauk | 30 min |
| Jun 23, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Marquette | 56 min |
| Jun 23, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dane | 55 min |
| Jun 23, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Green Lake | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 58 min |
| Jun 23, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac | 59 min |
| Jun 23, 8:34 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 116 min | |
| Jun 23, 8:34 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 116 min | |
| Jun 23, 8:34 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 116 min | |
| Jun 23, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Jefferson | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 9:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Washington | 27 min |
| Jun 23, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Rock, Walworth, Waukesha | 39 min |
| Jun 23, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Walworth | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 38 min |
| Jun 23, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Racine | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha | 29 min |
| Jun 23, 10:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 65 min | |
| Jun 23, 10:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 65 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.