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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Milwaukee, WI

May 6, 2005Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2005, 4:30 PM CDT for Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 26 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 6, 2005, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 2005, 4:56 PM CDT
In force
26 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), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 57 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 2005-05-06Temperature 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 2005-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 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
1679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-59 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 
WFUS53 KMKX 062131
TORMKX
WIC039-062215-
/O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0012.050506T2130Z-050506T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
430 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FOND DU LAC COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 428 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A WATERSPOUT 
OVER LAKE WINNEBEGO MOVING SOUTHEAST TOWARD NORTHEAST FOND DU LAC 
COUNTY. 

* THE TORNADO IS WILL BE NEAR...
  MARYTOWN AROUND 445 PM CDT...

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4408 8840 4394 8844 4387 8817 4397 8811

$$

GEHRING
2 follow-up statements
000 
WWUS53 KMKX 062136
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
435 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005

WIC039-062215-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-050506T2215Z/
FOND DU LAC-
435 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR FOND DU LAC 
COUNTY...

AT 433 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A WATERSPOUT OVER 
LAKE WINNEBAGO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PIPE BY 440 PM CDT
  MARYTOWN BY 450 PM CDT

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4408 8840 4394 8844 4387 8817 4397 8811

$$

WOOD
000 
WWUS53 KMKX 062156
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
456 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005

WIC039-062204-
/O.CAN.KMKX.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-050506T2215Z/
FOND DU LAC-
456 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR FOND DU LAC COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

AT 456 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THAT THE STORM WHICH PRODUCED THE WATERSPOUT OVER LAKE WINNEBAGO HAS 
WEAKENED. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR FOND DU LAC COUNTY HAS 
BEEN CANCELLED.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL AND 
SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS.

LAT...LON 4408 8840 4394 8844 4387 8817 4397 8811

$$

WOOD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXFond du Lac, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington48 min
May 6, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDodge74 min
May 6, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXFond du Lac51 min
May 6, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane45 min
May 6, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXJefferson28 min
May 6, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane46 min
May 6, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXWaukesha55 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.