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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 16, 2004Columbia County, Marquette County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 16, 2004, 2:09 PM CDT for Columbia County, Marquette 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: Jul 16, 2004, 2:09 PM CDT (19:09 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2004, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Columbia County, WI, Marquette County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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 nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 151 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1600 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KMKX 161909
TORMKX
WIC021-077-162015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
209 PM CDT FRI JUL 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MARQUETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
  COLUMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 209 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 6 MILES SOUTH OF GLEN
  OAK...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF PORTAGE...MOVING SOUTH AT 15
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PARDEEVILLE AT 250 PM CDT.
  WYOCENA AT 300 PM CDT.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS

LAT...LON 4344 8938 4347 8938 4373 8949 4380 8927
      4376 8924 4365 8924 4364 8922 4364 8917
      4352 8910

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 9:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane	48 min
Jul 16, 10:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green	38 min
Jul 16, 11:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Green	55 min
Jul 16, 12:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Iowa, Lafayette	60 min
Jul 16, 12:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Iowa, Lafayette	59 min
Jul 16, 12:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Waukesha	48 min
Jul 16, 12:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Ozaukee, Washington	57 min
Jul 16, 1:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac	53 min
Jul 16, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Sheboygan	33 min
Jul 16, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Marquette	60 min
Jul 16, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Ozaukee, Sheboygan	42 min
Jul 16, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge	58 min
Jul 16, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Washington	62 min
Jul 16, 2:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dodge	31 min
Jul 16, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Sauk	60 min
Jul 16, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane	64 min
Jul 16, 3:46 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		44 min
Jul 16, 3:46 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		44 min
Jul 16, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Kenosha	33 min
Jul 16, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Green, Rock	30 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.