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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Milwaukee, WI

March 30, 2005Dodge County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2005, 3:47 PM CST for Dodge County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 28 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, 3:47 PM CST (21:47 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2005, 4:15 PM CST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dodge County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KMKX 302147
TORMKX
WIC027-302215-
/O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0007.050330T2147Z-050330T2215Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DODGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 415 PM CST

* AT 344 PM CST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR BEAVER DAM...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS WILL BE NEAR...
  WAUPUN AROUND 400 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 4347 8901 4341 8870 4363 8849 4364 8897

$$

REM

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KMKX 302149
SVSMKX

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

WIC027-302215-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-050330T2215Z/
DODGE-
349 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 415 PM CST FOR DODGE COUNTY...

AT 344 PM CST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS
LOCATED NEAR BEAVER DAM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ATWATER BY 355 PM CST
  WAUPUN BY 400 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 4347 8901 4341 8870 4363 8849 4364 8897

$$

WOOD

000 
WWUS53 KMKX 302209
SVSMKX

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

WIC027-302215-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-050330T2215Z/
DODGE-
407 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 415 PM CST FOR DODGE COUNTY...

AT 406 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ATWATER...MOVING 
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  
  WAUPUN BY 415 PM CST...

LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A ROTATING WALL CLOUD 3 MILES NORTH OF 
BEAVER DAM AT 4 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 4347 8901 4341 8870 4363 8849 4364 8897

$$

WOOD

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, 2:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane	25 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, 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.