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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Milwaukee, WI

May 23, 2004Dodge County, Fond du Lac County, Washington County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2004, 7:55 PM CDT for Dodge County, Fond du Lac County, Washington County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 50 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 23, 2004, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2004, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Washington County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 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 nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 276 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

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

020 
WFUS53 KMKX 240055
TORMKX
WIC027-039-131-240145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
753 PM CDT SUN MAY 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEAST FOND DU LAC COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
  NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN
  NORTHWEST WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 753 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
  JUNEAU...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MINNESOTA JUNCTION AT 755 PM CDT.
  HORICON AT 800 PM CDT.
  MAYVILLE AT 810 PM CDT.
  THERESA AT 815 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 4348 8894 4331 8883 4347 8842 4355 8817
          4378 8817

$$

WOOD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 7:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dane, Jefferson	57 min
May 23, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dodge	49 min
May 23, 7:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Jefferson, Waukesha	41 min
May 23, 8:00 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		2 hr
May 23, 8:00 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		2 hr
May 23, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha	49 min
May 23, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac, Sheboygan	50 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.