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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Milwaukee, WI

March 30, 2005Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2005-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2005-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 169 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 12:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXLafayette49 min
Mar 30, 12:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXIowa, Lafayette51 min
Mar 30, 1:08 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane52 min
Mar 30, 1:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXColumbia, Dane52 min
Mar 30, 1:58 PM CSTTornado WarningMKXDane32 min
Mar 30, 2:20 PM CSTTornado WarningMKXColumbia, Dane40 min
Mar 30, 2:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDodge, Fond du Lac42 min
Mar 30, 2:50 PM CSTTornado WarningMKXColumbia, Dane25 min
Mar 30, 3:01 PM CSTTornado WarningMKXColumbia, Dodge44 min
Mar 30, 3:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDodge50 min
Mar 30, 3:47 PM CSTTornado WarningMKXDodge28 min
Mar 30, 4:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXColumbia, Dane, Dodge31 min
Mar 30, 4:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDodge, Fond du Lac44 min
Mar 30, 4:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXJefferson27 min
Mar 30, 5:00 PM CSTTornado WarningMKXFond du Lac45 min
Mar 30, 5:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXOzaukee, Sheboygan40 min
Mar 30, 5:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane, Green, Rock37 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.