Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 2006, 8:57 PM CDT for Columbia County, Green Lake County, Marquette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 33 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
- Jul 1, 2006, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2006, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Columbia County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Marquette County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 2192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1445 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMKX 020157 TORMKX WIC021-047-077-020230- /O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0021.060702T0157Z-060702T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 857 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEAST MARQUETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN SOUTHERN GREEN LAKE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN NORTHEAST COLUMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 856 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR DALTON...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF PORTAGE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... KINGSTON AROUND 905 PM CDT... FRIESLAND AROUND 910 PM CDT... 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4374 8941 4362 8934 4358 8905 4367 8899 $$ GEHRING
4 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KMKX 020200 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 900 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006 WIC021-047-077-020230- /O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060702T0230Z/ MARQUETTE WI-GREEN LAKE WI-COLUMBIA WI- 900 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR COLUMBIA...GREEN LAKE AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES... AT 855 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD EAST OF ENDEAVOR IN MARQUETTE COUNTY. THE FUNNEL TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DALTON...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF PORTAGE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... KINGSTON BY 905 PM CDT FRIESLAND BY 910 PM CDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4374 8941 4362 8934 4358 8905 4367 8899 $$ GEHRING
000 WWUS53 KMKX 020208 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 907 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006 WIC021-047-077-020230- /O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060702T0230Z/ MARQUETTE WI-GREEN LAKE WI-COLUMBIA WI- 907 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR COLUMBIA...GREEN LAKE AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES... AT 907 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DALTON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF PORTAGE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER HAS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD WITH THIS STORM AT 855 PM. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MARKESAN BY 915 PM CDT IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. 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 4378 8930 4364 8928 4354 8906 4372 8896 $$ BORGHOFF
000 WWUS53 KMKX 020220 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 918 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006 WIC021-077-020227- /O.CAN.KMKX.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060702T0230Z/ MARQUETTE WI-COLUMBIA WI- 918 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR COLUMBIA AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE ROTATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORM HAS PUSHED OUT OF COLUMBIA AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES...THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4381 8916 4365 8924 4363 8898 4378 8893 $$ WIC047-020230- /O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060702T0230Z/ GREEN LAKE WI- 918 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR GREEN LAKE COUNTY... AT 918 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW ROTATION. THIS ROTATION WAS LOCATED NEAR MARQUETTE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RIPON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MARKESAN BY 925 PM CDT IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED BY A TRAINED SPOTTER 12 MILES WEST OF MARKESAN AT 915 PM. 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 4381 8916 4365 8924 4363 8898 4378 8893 $$ BORGHOFF
000 WWUS53 KMKX 020229 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 928 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006 WIC047-020238- /O.EXP.KMKX.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060702T0230Z/ GREEN LAKE WI- 928 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR GREEN LAKE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 930 PM CDT... THE ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM HAS WEAKENED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 4381 8916 4365 8924 4363 8898 4378 8893 $$ BORGHOFF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marquette | 78 min |
| Jul 1, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac, Green Lake | 74 min |
| Jul 1, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 80 min |
| Jul 1, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia | 71 min |
| Jul 1, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 36 min |
| Jul 1, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 50 min |
| Jul 1, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Iowa | 72 min |
| Jul 1, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marquette | 46 min |
| Jul 1, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sheboygan | 50 min |
| Jul 1, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia | 48 min |
| Jul 1, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake | 52 min |
| Jul 1, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 44 min |
| Jul 1, 9:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sheboygan | 45 min |
| Jul 1, 9:33 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 87 min | |
| Jul 1, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake | 27 min |
| Jul 1, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 25 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.