Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2005, 3:24 PM CST for Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 51 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
- Mar 30, 2005, 3:24 PM CST (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2005, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fond du Lac County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1379 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMKX 302124 SVRMKX WIC039-302215- /O.NEW.KMKX.SV.W.0021.050330T2124Z-050330T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 324 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FOND DU LAC COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 415 PM CST * AT 323 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BRANDON...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAUPUN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BRANDON AROUND 330 PM CST... RIPON AND OAKFIELD AROUND 340 PM CST... ROSENDALE AND CAMPBELLSPORT AROUND 345 PM CST... NORTH FOND DU LAC AND FOND DU LAC AROUND 355 PM CST... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. LAT...LON 4391 8885 4366 8884 4357 8820 4393 8827 $$ REM
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KMKX 302126 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 326 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005 WIC039-302215- /O.CON.KMKX.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050330T2215Z/ FOND DU LAC- 326 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 415 PM CST FOR FOND DU LAC COUNTY... AT 323 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BRANDON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF WAUPUN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WIOTA AND LAGODA BY 330 PM CST ROSENDALE AND WEST ROSENDALE BY 335 PM CST 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMARTINE BY 340 PM CST 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH FOND DU LAC BY 350 PM CST 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF PIPE BY 415 PM CST A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. LAT...LON 4391 8885 4366 8884 4357 8820 4393 8827 $$ WOOD/HANSING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 12:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Lafayette | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 12:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 1:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 1:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 1:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dane | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 2:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 2:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac | 42 min |
| Mar 30, 2:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 3:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dodge | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 3:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 3:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge | 28 min |
| Mar 30, 4:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Dodge | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 4:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 4:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 5:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Sheboygan | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Green, Rock | 37 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.