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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 18, 2005Iowa County, Sauk County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Aug 18, 2005, 5:07 PM CDT for Iowa County, Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 23 min. 2 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: Aug 18, 2005, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 2005, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Iowa County, WI, Sauk County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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
Aug 18, 5:25 PM CDT	TORNADO	3 Nw Spring Green, WI	TORNADO REPORTED NEAR BIG HOLLOW ROAD MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST. TREES DOWN.
Aug 18, 5:35 PM CDT	TORNADO	1 W Spring Green, WI	TORNADO REPORTED BY SHERRIFF.

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
Aug 18, 2:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 757 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 763 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 5.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KMKX 182207
TORMKX
WIC049-111-182230-
/O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0028.050818T2207Z-050818T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
507 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SAUK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
  IOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 505 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
  A TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF SPRING GREEN...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF DODGEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SPRING GREEN AROUND 520 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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4317 9039 4302 9026 4331 8972 4355 8961

$$

REM

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KMKX 182215
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
512 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005

WIC049-111-182230-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-050818T2230Z/
SAUK-IOWA-
512 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR IOWA AND SAUK
COUNTIES...

AT 510 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR SPRING GREEN...OR
ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF DODGEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ARENA AND 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PLAIN BY 525 PM CDT...
  8 MILES SOUTH OF LELAND BY 530 PM CDT...

ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR 
HOLLSNDALE...AND IT WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 
ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF HIGHLAND...AND IT WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 
35 MPH.  THE AREA BETWEEN DODGEVILLE AND CLYDE IS IN THE PATH OF 
THIS STORM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING 
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4317 9039 4283 9041 4282 8986 4322 8985
      4331 8972 4355 8961

$$

MBK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 18, 7:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Iowa, Lafayette	45 min
Aug 18, 7:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green, Lafayette	52 min
Aug 18, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Sauk	53 min
Aug 18, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane	64 min
Aug 18, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Iowa, Sauk	54 min
Aug 18, 5:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Marquette	43 min
Aug 18, 6:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane	39 min
Aug 18, 6:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Jefferson	61 min
Aug 18, 6:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Green Lake, Marquette	35 min
Aug 18, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dane	36 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.