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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 7, 2008Columbia County, Marquette County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2008, 1:23 PM CDT for Columbia County, Marquette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 67 min. 10 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: Jun 7, 2008, 1:23 PM CDT (18:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2008, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Columbia County, WI, Marquette County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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	Remark
Jun 7, 1:50 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 60	Wisconsin Dells, WI	HEAVY RAIN...SEVERE WINDS...POWER IS OUT
Jun 7, 1:55 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Wisconsin Dells, WI	NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN ACROSS THE WISCONSIN DELLS AREA...INCLUDES PORTIONS OF SAUK AND COLUMBIA COUNTIES.
Jun 7, 1:59 PM CDT	TORNADO 1	6 Wsw Endeavor, WI	EF1 TORNADO WITH 90 MPH WINDS. LIKELY STARTED IN ADAMS COUNTY AND CROSSED INTO MARQUETTE COUNTY 2.5 NORTH OF BRIGGSVILLE. TORNADO CONTINUED EAST-SOUTHEAST 2.5 MILES AND ENDED 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF BRIGGSVILLE NEAR WHERE HIGHWAY 23 CROSSES NEENAH CREEK. TREES DO
Jun 7, 2:10 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 S Endeavor, WI	A FEW TREES AND TREE BRANCHES REPORTED DOWN IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE COUNTY NEAR BRIGGSVILLE AND ENDEAVOR. POWER LINES ALSO REPORTED DOWN.
Jun 7, 2:20 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Portage, WI	CALLS STILL COMING IN TO POLICE DEPARTMENT...BUT TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN AND SOME FLOODING WAS ALSO REPORTED. THE DEGREE OF FLOODING IS UNKNOWN.
Jun 7, 2:20 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 65	1 W Portage, WI	HEAVY RAINS...WITH POOLING WATER ON ROADS
Jun 7, 2:21 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Wisconsin Dells, WI	TEMPORARY CANOPY BLOWN DOWN...WIND SPEED UNKNOWN
Jun 7, 2:22 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 N Portage, WI	TREES COMING DOWN AND ESTIMATED 60 MPH WINDS ALL ALONG INTERSTATE 39 FROM PORTAGE TO THE MARQUETTE-COLUMBIA COUNTY LINE.
Jun 7, 2:32 PM CDT	TORNADO 2	1 Ese Pardeeville, WI	* 5 INJ * BEGINNING OF TORNADO TRACK OF 8 MILES FROM 232 PM TO 250 PM CDT. TRACK ENDED 3 MILES SOUTH OF CAMBRIA. BROAD AREA OF DAMAGE ABOUT 2 MILES WIDE AT TIMES WITH ESTIMATED SPEEDS OF 60 TO 90 MILES. HOWEVER...SEVERAL EMBEDDED VORTICES WITH DAMAGE OF 10
Jun 7, 2:35 PM CDT	TORNADO	3 Sw Wyocena, WI	A ROOF OFF A HOME ON DUNNING ROAD. ALSO MULTIPLE REPORTS OF STRUCTURAL DAMAGE IN THE PORTAGE TO PARDEEVILLE AREAS...STRETCHING NORTHWEST TO THE WISCONSIN DELLS. IT IS UNKNOWN IF ALL OF THESE REPORTS ARE RELATED TO A TORNADO...BUT DISPATCH INDICATED THEY HAD MU

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
Jun 7, 12:17 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 1417 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 231 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KMKX 071825
TORMKX
WIC021-077-071930-
/O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0014.080607T1823Z-080607T1930Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
123 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 230 PM CDT

* AT 122 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 25 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF WESTFIELD...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MAUSTON...MOVING
  EAST AT 37 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  9 MILES NORTH OF PORTAGE BY 205 PM CDT...
  9 MILES SOUTH OF MONTELLO BY 210 PM CDT...
  9 MILES NORTH OF PARDEEVILLE BY 215 PM CDT...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND HURRICANE FORCE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS EXCEEDING 
80 MPH.  

TREE AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED IN SOUTHERN 
JUNEAU COUNTY WITH THIS STORM.  

LAT...LON 4366 8961 4395 8961 4399 8959 4398 8916
      4376 8921 4377 8923 4342 8927 4346 8959
      4355 8959 4357 8971 4362 8978 4365 8978
TIME...MOT...LOC 1823Z 276DEG 32KT 4372 8994

$$

CRAVEN

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KMKX 071839
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
138 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2008

WIC021-077-071930-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-080607T1930Z/
MARQUETTE WI-COLUMBIA WI-
138 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN COLUMBIA AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES...

AT 136 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS.  THESE TORNADO PRODUCING
STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM WISCONSIN DELLS TO 
REEDSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 39 MPH.

TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  ENDEAVOR BY 155 PM CDT...
  ENDEAVOR BY 200 PM CDT...
  6 MILES SOUTH OF GLEN OAK BY 205 PM CDT...
  INTERSTATE 90/94 WI RIVER BRIDGE BY 215 PM CDT...
  PORTAGE BY 220 PM CDT...
  PARDEEVILLE RAWS...PARDEEVILLE AND WYOCENA BY 230 PM CDT...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS 
OF 80 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4365 8978 4366 8961 4395 8961 4399 8959
      4398 8916 4376 8921 4377 8923 4342 8927
      4346 8959 4355 8959 4357 8971
TIME...MOT...LOC 1838Z 277DEG 34KT 4369 8974 4360 8998

$$

BORGHOFF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 12:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Green Lake and 14 more	39 hr
Jun 7, 1:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Sauk	40 min
Jun 7, 1:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Columbia, Marquette, Sauk	4 hr
Jun 7, 1:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Green Lake, Marquette, Sauk	60 min
Jun 7, 1:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Green Lake	4 hr
Jun 7, 2:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac	4 hr
Jun 7, 2:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dodge, Green Lake	53 min
Jun 7, 2:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Iowa, Sauk	60 min
Jun 7, 2:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dane, Iowa	57 min
Jun 7, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		2 hr
Jun 7, 3:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dane, Green, Jefferson, Rock	65 min
Jun 7, 3:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Dodge, Fond du Lac, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington	6 hr
Jun 7, 3:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dodge, Washington	65 min
Jun 7, 3:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Dane, Jefferson	4 hr
Jun 7, 3:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Sauk	53 min
Jun 7, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green, Lafayette	52 min
Jun 7, 4:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Milwaukee, Waukesha	4 hr
Jun 7, 4:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dane, Jefferson, Rock, Walworth, Waukesha	55 min
Jun 7, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Iowa	40 min
Jun 7, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Ozaukee	48 min
Jun 7, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane	41 min
Jun 7, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Washington	39 min
Jun 7, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		2 hr
Jun 7, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Milwaukee	62 min
Jun 7, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Jefferson, Racine, Walworth and 1 more	47 min
Jun 7, 5:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Jefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine, Walworth, Waukesha	3 hr
Jun 7, 5:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Columbia, Sauk	9 hr
Jun 7, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Milwaukee, Racine	40 min
Jun 7, 6:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Sauk	59 min
Jun 7, 6:44 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Milwaukee	21 hr
Jun 7, 6:45 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Milwaukee	62 hr
Jun 7, 6:52 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Milwaukee	27 hr
Jun 7, 6:54 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Milwaukee	67 hr
Jun 7, 6:54 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Racine	5 days
Jun 7, 6:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MKX	Green Lake, Marquette	6 hr
Jun 7, 6:57 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Waukesha	10 days
Jun 7, 6:57 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Racine	14 days

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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.