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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Aug 18, 2005, 6:39 PM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 36 min. 5 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, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 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), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 6:41 PM CDT | TORNADO | Stoughton, WI | LARGE TREES DOWN AND HOUSES DAMAGED. SCATTERED DEBRIS REPORTED. |
| Aug 18, 6:43 PM CDT | TORNADO | Stoughton, WI | HOUSE DAMAGE IN STOUGHTON. |
| Aug 18, 6:48 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 E Stoughton, WI | TORNADO ON THE GROUND JUST NORTH OF HIGHWAY 51 AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 90/39...3 MILES EAST OF STOUGHTON. |
| Aug 18, 7:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 8 Sse Cottage Grove, WI | GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED ON HIGHWAY 18. |
| Aug 18, 7:25 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Oregon, WI | POWERLINES DOWN. |
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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMKX 182339 TORMKX WIC025-190015- /O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0034.050818T2339Z-050819T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 639 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN DANE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 637 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A TORNADO NEAR STOUGHTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DEERFIELD AROUND 645 PM CDT... DO NOT USE HIGHWAY OVERPASSES FOR SHELTER. OVERPASSES DO NOT PROVIDE PROTECTION FROM TORNADIC WINDS. VEHICLES STOPPED UNDER BRIDGES BLOCK TRAFFIC AND PREVENT PEOPLE FROM GETTING OUT OF THE STORMS PATH AND TO SHELTER. IF YOU CANNOT DRIVE AWAY FROM THE TORNADO...GET OUT OF YOUR VEHICLE AND LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AS A LAST RESORT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4316 8943 4287 8943 4286 8902 4314 8903 $$ REM
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMKX 182347 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 646 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 WIC025-190015- /O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-050819T0015Z/ DANE- 646 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR DANE COUNTY... AT 642 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO IN STOUGHTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ALBION...ROCKDALE...AND UTICA BY 655 PM CDT... IN STOUGHTON...DAMAGE TO HOMES WAS REPORTED AT 640 PM...BASED ON SPOTTER REPORTS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4316 8943 4287 8943 4286 8902 4314 8903 $$ KAPELA
000 WWUS53 KMKX 190007 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 706 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 WIC025-190015- /O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-050819T0015Z/ DANE- 706 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR DANE COUNTY... AT 704 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A STORM AND POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ROCKDALE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF EDGERTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4316 8943 4287 8943 4286 8902 4314 8903 $$ 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, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Iowa, Sauk | 23 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 |
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.