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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 7, 1:50 PM CDTTSTM WND GST 60Wisconsin Dells, WIHEAVY RAIN...SEVERE WINDS...POWER IS OUT
Jun 7, 1:55 PM CDTTSTM WND DMGWisconsin Dells, WINUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN ACROSS THE WISCONSIN DELLS AREA...INCLUDES PORTIONS OF SAUK AND COLUMBIA COUNTIES.
Jun 7, 1:59 PM CDTTORNADO 16 Wsw Endeavor, WIEF1 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 CDTTSTM WND DMG2 S Endeavor, WIA 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 CDTTSTM WND DMGPortage, WICALLS 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 CDTTSTM WND GST 651 W Portage, WIHEAVY RAINS...WITH POOLING WATER ON ROADS
Jun 7, 2:21 PM CDTTSTM WND DMGWisconsin Dells, WITEMPORARY CANOPY BLOWN DOWN...WIND SPEED UNKNOWN
Jun 7, 2:22 PM CDTTSTM WND DMG2 N Portage, WITREES COMING DOWN AND ESTIMATED 60 MPH WINDS ALL ALONG INTERSTATE 39 FROM PORTAGE TO THE MARQUETTE-COLUMBIA COUNTY LINE.
Jun 7, 2:32 PM CDTTORNADO 21 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 CDTTORNADO3 Sw Wyocena, WIA 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 7, 12:17 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2008-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2008-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 197 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 12:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchMKXColumbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Green Lake and 14 more39 hr
Jun 7, 1:05 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXSauk40 min
Jun 7, 1:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXColumbia, Marquette, Sauk4 hr
Jun 7, 1:45 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXColumbia, Green Lake, Marquette, Sauk60 min
Jun 7, 1:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXGreen Lake4 hr
Jun 7, 2:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXColumbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac4 hr
Jun 7, 2:37 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXColumbia, Dodge, Green Lake53 min
Jun 7, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXColumbia, Iowa, Sauk60 min
Jun 7, 2:48 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXDane, Iowa57 min
Jun 7, 2:59 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMKX2 hr
Jun 7, 3:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXDane, Green, Jefferson, Rock65 min
Jun 7, 3:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXDodge, Fond du Lac, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington6 hr
Jun 7, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXDodge, Washington65 min
Jun 7, 3:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXDane, Jefferson4 hr
Jun 7, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXColumbia, Dane, Sauk53 min
Jun 7, 3:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXGreen, Lafayette52 min
Jun 7, 4:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXMilwaukee, Waukesha4 hr
Jun 7, 4:05 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXDane, Jefferson, Rock, Walworth, Waukesha55 min
Jun 7, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane, Iowa40 min
Jun 7, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXOzaukee48 min
Jun 7, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXColumbia, Dane41 min
Jun 7, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXWashington39 min
Jun 7, 4:43 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMKX2 hr
Jun 7, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXMilwaukee62 min
Jun 7, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXColumbia, Dane, Dodge, Jefferson, Racine, Walworth and 1 more47 min
Jun 7, 5:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXJefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine, Walworth, Waukesha3 hr
Jun 7, 5:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXColumbia, Sauk9 hr
Jun 7, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXMilwaukee, Racine40 min
Jun 7, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXSauk59 min
Jun 7, 6:44 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningMKXMilwaukee21 hr
Jun 7, 6:45 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningMKXMilwaukee62 hr
Jun 7, 6:52 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningMKXMilwaukee27 hr
Jun 7, 6:54 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningMKXMilwaukee67 hr
Jun 7, 6:54 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningMKXRacine5 days
Jun 7, 6:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXGreen Lake, Marquette6 hr
Jun 7, 6:57 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningMKXWaukesha10 days
Jun 7, 6:57 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningMKXRacine14 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.