Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jan 7, 2008, 5:38 PM CST for Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 22 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
- Jan 7, 2008, 5:38 PM CST (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Racine County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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 nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 1003 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 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 072338
TORMKX
WIC101-080000-
/O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0004.080107T2338Z-080108T0000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
538 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL RACINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...DOWNTOWN RACINE...STURTEVANT...
* UNTIL 600 PM CST
* AT 536 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
STURTEVANT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
DOWNTOWN RACINE...RACINE BATTEN ARPT(KRAC) AND RACINE BATTEN
AIRPORT BY 550 PM CST...
WIND POINT BY 555 PM CST...
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
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.
LAT...LON 4275 8775 4269 8775 4267 8780 4267 8799
4270 8801 4283 8780 4278 8774 4276 8774
TIME...MOT...LOC 2338Z 245DEG 36KT 4269 8794
$$
BORGHOFF2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KMKX 072347
SVSMKX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
548 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008
WIC101-080000-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-080108T0000Z/
RACINE WI-
548 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR EAST
CENTRAL RACINE COUNTY...
AT 546 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ELMWOOD PARK...OR
ABOUT NEAR DOWNTOWN RACINE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
WIND POINT BY 555 PM CST...
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 4275 8775 4269 8775 4269 8784 4274 8787
4281 8781 4278 8774 4276 8774
TIME...MOT...LOC 2348Z 244DEG 37KT 4274 8781
$$
BORGHOFF000
WWUS53 KMKX 072358
SVSMKX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
557 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008
WIC101-080007-
/O.EXP.KMKX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-080108T0000Z/
RACINE WI-
557 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL RACINE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 600
PM CST...
THE STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO HAS PUSH OUT OVER LAKE
MICHIGAN...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
HOWEVER...THERE ARE ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS OVER RACINE AND KENOSHA
COUNTIES THAT WILL NEED TO BE WATCHED FOR ADDITIONAL SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS.
LAT...LON 4275 8775 4269 8775 4269 8784 4274 8787
4281 8781 4278 8774 4276 8774
TIME...MOT...LOC 2357Z 244DEG 37KT 4278 8770
$$
BORGHOFFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 6:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Lafayette | 50 min |
| Jan 7, 11:13 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MKX | Kenosha | 8 days |
| Jan 7, 11:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 30 min |
| Jan 7, 11:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac, Washington | 27 min |
| Jan 7, 2:52 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Green Lake and 14 more | 18 hr |
| Jan 7, 3:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MKX | Rock, Walworth | 54 min |
| Jan 7, 3:30 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 60 min | |
| Jan 7, 3:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 54 min |
| Jan 7, 4:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Racine, Walworth, Waukesha | 42 min |
| Jan 7, 4:19 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 56 min | |
| Jan 7, 4:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 21 min |
| Jan 7, 5:51 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.