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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 6, 2006Green Lake County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 2006, 8:15 PM CDT for Green Lake 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: Jun 6, 2006, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2006, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Green Lake County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jun 6, 7:32 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 454 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KMKX 070116
TORMKX
WIC047-070200-
/O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0012.060607T0115Z-060607T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
815 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GREEN LAKE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 810 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF
  MARKESAN...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RIPON...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MARKESAN AROUND 835 PM CDT...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

LAT...LON 4379 8915 4372 8922 4363 8911 4364 8889
      4371 8888

$$

FOWLE/CRAVEN

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KMKX 070125
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
825 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 2006

WIC047-070200-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-060607T0200Z/
GREEN LAKE WI-
825 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR GREEN
LAKE COUNTY...

AT 819 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MANCHESTER...OR
ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RIPON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  MARKESAN BY 830 PM CDT

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4379 8915 4372 8922 4363 8911 4364 8889
      4371 8888

$$

REM

000 
WWUS53 KMKX 070200
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
857 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 2006

WIC047-070207-
/O.EXP.KMKX.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-060607T0200Z/
GREEN LAKE WI-
859 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR GREEN LAKE COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO 
EXPIRE AT 900 PM CDT...

THUNDERSTORMS OVER GREEN LAKE COUNTY HAVE WEAKENED...THEREFORE THE 
TORNADO WARNING FOR GREEN LAKE COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 9 
PM CDT.

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...EXTENDING FROM NEAR BERLIN TO JUST NORTH 
OF WESTFIELD IN MARQUETTE COUNTY...WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND 
GUST TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH AS THEY MOVE SOUTH AT 
30 MPH.  

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4379 8915 4372 8922 4363 8911 4364 8889
      4371 8888

$$

REM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Green Lake, Marquette	66 min
Jun 6, 7:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dane, Green, Iowa	56 min
Jun 6, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia	62 min
Jun 6, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac	54 min
Jun 6, 8:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Green	47 min
Jun 6, 8:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dane	45 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.