Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2010
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2010, 7:12 PM CDT for Waukesha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 33 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
- Jul 22, 2010, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2010, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Waukesha County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 3:26 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 179 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
- 462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 410 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
684 WFUS53 KMKX 230012 TORMKX WIC133-230045- /O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0039.100723T0012Z-100723T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 712 PM CDT THU JUL 22 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN WAUKESHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 706 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR PALMYRA...OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF EAST TROY. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADO MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. SEVERAL REPORTS OF TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED ALONG THE JEFFERSON AND WAUKESHA COUNTY LINE. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MUKWONAGO AND BIG BEND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 4284 8818 4284 8854 4293 8854 4296 8817 TIME...MOT...LOC 0011Z 270DEG 32KT 4287 8843 $$ ZABEL
1 follow-up statement
115 WWUS53 KMKX 230021 SVSMKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 721 PM CDT THU JUL 22 2010 WIC133-230045- /O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-100723T0045Z/ WAUKESHA WI- 721 PM CDT THU JUL 22 2010 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WAUKESHA COUNTY UNTIL 745 PM CDT... AT 720 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MUKWONAGO...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR... BIG BEND AROUND 730 PM CDT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 4284 8818 4284 8841 4294 8840 4296 8817 TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 268DEG 29KT 4287 8833 $$ KUHLMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Racine, Waukesha | 25 min |
| Jul 22, 7:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Dodge, Washington | 92 min |
| Jul 22, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green, Rock | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 7:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Green, Rock | 6 hr |
| Jul 22, 8:04 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 14 hr |
| Jul 22, 8:12 PM CDT | River Flood Watch | MKX | Waukesha | 11 hr |
| Jul 22, 8:12 PM CDT | River Flood Watch | MKX | Racine | 11 hr |
| Jul 22, 8:12 PM CDT | River Flood Watch | MKX | Kenosha | 11 hr |
| Jul 22, 8:15 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 2 hr | |
| Jul 22, 8:24 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Sauk | 25 hr |
| Jul 22, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Rock, Walworth | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 8:40 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Kenosha | 16 days |
| Jul 22, 8:40 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 50 hr |
| Jul 22, 8:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 5 hr |
| Jul 22, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green, Rock | 38 min |
| Jul 22, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 38 min |
| Jul 22, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Rock, Walworth | 50 min |
| Jul 22, 10:04 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 101 min | |
| Jul 22, 10:08 PM CDT | River Flood Watch | MKX | Jefferson, Rock | 48 hr |
| Jul 22, 10:08 PM CDT | River Flood Watch | MKX | Rock | 12 hr |
| Jul 22, 10:08 PM CDT | River Flood Watch | MKX | Jefferson | 12 hr |
| Jul 22, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 23 min |
| Jul 22, 11:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Milwaukee, Waukesha | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 12:16 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | MKX | Jefferson | 117 days |
| Jul 23, 2:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Green, Lafayette | 5 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Green Lake and 14 more | 27 hr |
| Jul 23, 5:17 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 35 hr |
| Jul 23, 5:17 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 41 hr |
| Jul 23, 5:17 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 12 days |
| Jul 23, 5:17 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 5 days |
| Jul 23, 5:17 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 52 hr |
| Jul 23, 5:17 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Racine | 48 hr |
| Jul 23, 5:21 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Racine | 41 hr |
| Jul 23, 6:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MKX | Dane, Iowa, Rock | 4 hr |
| Jul 23, 7:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MKX | Green, Lafayette | 4 hr |
| Jul 23, 10:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Rock | 20 days |
| Jul 23, 10:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 12 days |
| Jul 23, 10:16 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MKX | Racine | 66 hr |
| Jul 23, 10:21 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | MKX | Jefferson, Rock | 19 hr |
| Jul 23, 10:21 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | MKX | Iowa, Lafayette | 24 hr |
| Jul 23, 10:21 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | MKX | Green | 19 hr |
| Jul 23, 10:21 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | MKX | Green, Rock | 35 hr |
| Jul 23, 10:21 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | MKX | Rock | 19 hr |
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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.