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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2004, 8:05 PM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 55 min. 8 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2004, 8:05 PM CDT (01:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 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), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 8:30 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Middleton, WI | LOCATED AT THE INTERSECTION OF HWY 12 AND HWY M. |
| Jun 23, 8:33 PM CDT | HAIL 0.5 | 1 S Waunakee, WI | |
| Jun 23, 8:40 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Madison, WI | ON FISH HATCHERY ROAD...JUST NORTH OF HWY 12/18. ONE BUILDING DAMAGED. |
| Jun 23, 8:40 PM CDT | TORNADO | Madison, WI | 3 MILES SOUTH OF UW-MADISON CAMPUS OR AT THE INTERSECTION OF SOUTH PARK STREET AND HWY 151. TRANSFORMERS DAMAGED. |
| Jun 23, 8:44 PM CDT | TORNADO | 2 S Madison, WI | REPORTED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HWY PD AND HWY 12/18. DAMAGE PATH NOTED. |
| Jun 23, 8:45 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Sw Madison, WI | NUMEROUS TREES DOWN JUST SOUTHWEST OF MADISON. |
| Jun 23, 8:45 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 4 N Madison, WI | LOCATED AT THE STATE CAPITAL. |
| Jun 23, 9:10 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Cambridge, WI |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 185 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.
711
WFUS53 KMKX 240105
TORMKX
WIC025-240200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
805 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
DANE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
* UNTIL 900 PM CDT
* AT 805 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 MAZOMANIE...OR
ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAUK CITY...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
CROSS PLAINS AT 810 PM CDT.
MIDDLETON AT 815 PM CDT.
MADISON AT 820 PM CDT.
MAPLE BLUFF AT 825 PM CDT.
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
NOT BE OCCURRING WHEN THE WARNING IS ISSUED...BUT ONE COULD DEVELOP
AT ANY TIME. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE
INDOORS AND GO TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS
LAT...LON 4311 8984 4323 8982 4325 8974 4328 8971
4328 8967 4322 8925 4320 8901 4295 8901
$$
REMThe 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, 8:12 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, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Sheboygan | 25 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 |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.