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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Milwaukee, WI

March 30, 2005Columbia County, Dane County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2005, 2:50 PM CST for Columbia County, Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 25 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, 2:50 PM CST (20:50 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2005, 3:15 PM CST
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Columbia County, WI, Dane County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 30, 11:05 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
Mar 30, 2:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 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 
WFUS53 KMKX 302051
TORMKX
WIC021-025-302115-
/O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0005.050330T2050Z-050330T2115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
250 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
  NORTHEAST DANE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 315 PM CST

* AT 248 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR SUN
  PRAIRIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS WILL BE NEAR...
  MARSHALL AROUND 255 PM CST...
  COLUMBUS AND FALL RIVER AROUND 315 PM CST...

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 4325 8941 4311 8926 4318 8903 4351 8903

$$

REM

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KMKX 302053
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
253 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

WIC021-025-302115-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-050330T2115Z/
COLUMBIA-DANE-
253 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 315 PM CST FOR NORTHEASTERN DANE
AND EASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTIES...

AT 252 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR SUN PRAIRIE...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  DEANSVILLE BY 255 PM CST
  EAST BRISTOL AND 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARSHALL BY 300 PM CST
  COLUMBUS...FALL RIVER AND 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OTSEGO BY 315 PM CST

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 4325 8941 4311 8926 4318 8903 4351 8903

$$

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, 3:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dodge	44 min
Mar 30, 3:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac	51 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.