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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Milwaukee, WI

October 4, 2006Columbia County, Sauk County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Oct 4, 2006, 4:44 AM CDT for Columbia County, Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 27 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 4, 2006, 4:44 AM CDT (09:44 UTC)
Expired: Oct 4, 2006, 5:11 AM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Columbia County, WI, Sauk County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:47 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Oct 4, 4:55 AM CDT	HAIL 1	4 S Portage, WI
Oct 4, 4:57 AM CDT	TSTM WND GST 60	1 Nw Portage, WI
Oct 4, 5:07 AM CDT	HAIL 0.88	Wyocena, WI

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 4, 4:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 925 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 336 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KMKX 040944
TORMKX
WIC021-111-041015-
/O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0031.061004T0944Z-061004T1015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
444 AM CDT WED OCT 4 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 AM CDT

* AT 439 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR BARABOO...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 85 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RIO AND CAMBRIA BY 450 AM CDT...
  FALL RIVER BY 455 AM CDT...

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT
WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4363 8985 4342 8984 4338 8902 4364 8902

$$

DAVIS

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KMKX 041000
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
459 AM CDT WED OCT 4 2006

WIC111-041009-
/O.CAN.KMKX.TO.W.0031.000000T0000Z-061004T1015Z/
SAUK WI-
459 AM CDT WED OCT 4 2006

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

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT
WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4360 8958 4339 8957 4338 8902 4364 8902

$$

WIC021-041015-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0031.000000T0000Z-061004T1015Z/
COLUMBIA WI-
459 AM CDT WED OCT 4 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 AM CDT FOR COLUMBIA
COUNTY...

AT 456 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO.  THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR 
WYOCENA...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PORTAGE...MOVING EAST AT 70 
MPH.

* THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  CAMBRIA...FALL RIVER AND FRIESLAND BY 505 AM CDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT
WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4360 8958 4339 8957 4338 8902 4364 8902

$$

KAPELA

000 
WWUS53 KMKX 041011
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
510 AM CDT WED OCT 4 2006

WIC021-041019-
/O.CAN.KMKX.TO.W.0031.000000T0000Z-061004T1015Z/
COLUMBIA WI-
510 AM CDT WED OCT 4 2006

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

TORNADOES ARE NO LONGER POSSIBLE FOR COLUMBIA COUNTY. 
HOWEVER...SEVERE STORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL UP TO THE 
SIZE OF GOLF BALLS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH ABOUT 545 AM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT
WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4360 8958 4339 8957 4338 8902 4364 8902

$$
KAPELA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 4, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Sauk	41 min
Oct 4, 4:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green, Lafayette	24 min
Oct 4, 4:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac	38 min
Oct 4, 4:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Jefferson, Rock, Walworth	56 min
Oct 4, 4:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Sauk	53 min
Oct 4, 4:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Milwaukee	26 min
Oct 4, 4:59 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		61 min
Oct 4, 5:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Sauk	44 min
Oct 4, 5:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Dodge	39 min
Oct 4, 5:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Washington, Waukesha	37 min
Oct 4, 5:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Ozaukee	38 min
Oct 4, 5:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Jefferson	46 min
Oct 4, 6:00 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		90 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.