Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Mar 31, 2007, 7:09 PM CDT for Iowa County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 31, 2007, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2007, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Iowa County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 7:15 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Mineral Point, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1215 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 378 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 492 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KMKX 010009
TORMKX
WIC049-010045-
/O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0003.070401T0009Z-070401T0045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
709 PM CDT SAT MAR 31 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN AND EASTERN IOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
* AT 705 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MINERAL
POINT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGEVILLE BY 715 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.
LAT...LON 4282 9032 4281 8998 4291 8985 4319 8984
4319 9001 4313 9005
$$
BORGHOFF2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KMKX 010014
SVSMKX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
714 PM CDT SAT MAR 31 2007
WIC049-010045-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070401T0045Z/
IOWA-
714 PM CDT SAT MAR 31 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN
AND EASTERN IOWA COUNTY...
AT 709 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MINERAL POINT...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
8 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOLLANDALE BY 725 PM CDT...
RIDGEWAY BY 730 PM CDT...
BARNEVELD BY 735 PM CDT...
6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ARENA BY 745 PM CDT...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 4282 9032 4281 8998 4291 8985 4319 8984
4319 9001 4313 9005
$$
ZAJDEL000
WWUS53 KMKX 010023
SVSMKX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
723 PM CDT SAT MAR 31 2007
WIC049-010045-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070401T0045Z/
IOWA-
723 PM CDT SAT MAR 31 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN
AND EASTERN IOWA COUNTY...
AT 722 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED
NEAR RIDGEWAY...OR ABOUT NEAR DODGEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
BARNEVELD BY 730 PM CDT...
8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ARENA BY 740 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.
LAT...LON 4282 9032 4281 8998 4291 8985 4319 8984
4319 9001 4313 9005
$$
ZAJDELThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Sauk | 39 min |
| Mar 31, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dane, Iowa | 31 min |
| Mar 31, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 27 min |
| Mar 31, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dane | 27 min |
| Mar 31, 9:45 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 2 hr | |
| Mar 31, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.