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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 30, 2006Columbia County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 30, 2006, 8:06 AM CDT for Columbia County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 15 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 30, 2006, 8:06 AM CDT (13:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2006, 8:21 AM CDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Columbia County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:06 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
Jul 30, 4:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 3708 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 772 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KMKX 301306
TORMKX
WIC021-301330-
/O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0023.060730T1306Z-060730T1330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
806 AM CDT SUN JUL 30 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  COLUMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 830 AM CDT

* AT 801 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR PORTAGE...
  MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PARDEEVILLE BY 820 AM CDT...
  RIO BY 830 AM 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 900 AM CDT SUNDAY
MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4363 8925 4363 8961 4334 8960 4334 8922

$$

MBK

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KMKX 301312
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
813 AM CDT SUN JUL 30 2006

WIC021-301330-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-060730T1330Z/
COLUMBIA WI-
813 AM CDT SUN JUL 30 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 AM CDT FOR CENTRAL
COLUMBIA COUNTY...

AT 813 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR PORTAGE...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  WYOCENA...PARDEEVILLE...6 MILES NORTHWEST OF RIO AND 8 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF POYNETTE BY 830 AM 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.

LAT...LON 4363 8925 4363 8961 4334 8960 4334 8922

$$

BB

000 
WWUS53 KMKX 301321
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
820 AM CDT SUN JUL 30 2006

WIC021-301330-
/O.CAN.KMKX.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-060730T1330Z/
COLUMBIA WI-
820 AM CDT SUN JUL 30 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR COLUMBIA COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE ROTATION WITHIN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED...THEREFORE 
THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR COLUMBIA AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES UNTIL 
900 AM CDT FOR DAMAGING WINDS TO 70 MPH.

LAT...LON 4363 8925 4363 8961 4334 8960 4334 8922

$$

BB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 4:41 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Green Lake and 14 more	71 hr
Jul 30, 6:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Marquette	53 min
Jul 30, 7:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Sheboygan	76 min
Jul 30, 7:17 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		88 min
Jul 30, 7:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge	59 min
Jul 30, 7:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac	29 min
Jul 30, 7:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Washington	53 min
Jul 30, 7:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Marquette	29 min
Jul 30, 8:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Ozaukee	51 min
Jul 30, 8:14 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		61 min
Jul 30, 8:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Jefferson, Waukesha	73 min
Jul 30, 8:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Milwaukee	64 min
Jul 30, 8:33 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		87 min
Jul 30, 9:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Kenosha, Racine	40 min
Jul 30, 9:55 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		50 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.