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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Milwaukee, WI

March 30, 2005Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2005, 5:00 PM CST for Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 45 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, 5:00 PM CST (23:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2005, 5:45 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fond du Lac County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 87 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 302300
TORMKX
WIC039-302345-
/O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0008.050330T2300Z-050330T2345Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM CST

* AT 458 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES EAST OF
  FOND DU LAC...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS WILL BE NEAR...
  PEEBLES AND TAYCHEEDAH AROUND 505 PM CST...
  MOUNT CALVARY AROUND 510 PM CST...
  CALVARY AND SAINT CLOUD AROUND 515 PM CST...

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 4365 8870 4363 8821 4391 8814 4390 8863

$$

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KMKX 302302
SVSMKX

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

WIC039-302345-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-050330T2345Z/
FOND DU LAC-
502 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 545 PM CST FOR FOND DU LAC
COUNTY...

AT 458 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF 
FOND DU LAC...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  MOUNT CALVARY BY 505 PM CST
  CALVARY...AND SAINT CLOUD BY 510 PM CST   
  JOHNSBURG BY 515 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 4365 8870 4363 8821 4391 8814 4390 8863

$$

WOOD

000 
WWUS53 KMKX 302311
SVSMKX

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

WIC039-302345-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-050330T2345Z/
FOND DU LAC-
510 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 545 PM CST FOR FOND DU LAC
COUNTY...

AT 503 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MOUNT CALVARY...OR
ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF FOND DU LAC...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  CALVARY...AND SAINT CLOUD BY 510 PM CST  
  JOHNSBURG BY 515 PM CST

ANOTHER STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 1 MILE EAST 
OF BYRON...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.  

AT 505 PM CST...A WALL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY A TRAINED SPOTTER 1 
MILE NORTHEAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 175 AND COUNTY HIGHWAY 
Y.

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 4365 8870 4363 8821 4391 8814 4390 8863

$$

WOOD

000 
WWUS53 KMKX 302328
SVSMKX

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

WIC039-302336-
/O.CAN.KMKX.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-050330T2345Z/
FOND DU LAC-
526 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

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

THE STORMS THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING FOR FOND DU LAC COUNTY 
HAVE WEAKENED. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR FOND DU LAC 
COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST.

LAT...LON 4365 8870 4363 8821 4391 8814 4390 8863

$$

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, 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, 5:41 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

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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.