Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2011
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2011, 2:57 PM CDT for Marquette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 29 min. 7 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
- May 22, 2011, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2011, 3:26 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Marquette County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 3:00 PM CDT | HAIL 2 | Westfield, WI | |
| May 22, 3:01 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Westfield, WI | |
| May 22, 3:01 PM CDT | HAIL 2 | Westfield, WI | |
| May 22, 3:05 PM CDT | HAIL 4.25 | 1 E Westfield, WI | |
| May 22, 3:10 PM CDT | HAIL 2.75 | 1 S Westfield, WI | |
| May 22, 3:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 5 W Neshkoro, WI | |
| May 22, 3:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 7 W Neshkoro, WI | NORTH SIDE OF CRYSTAL LAKE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1006 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
566
WFUS53 KMKX 221957
TORMKX
WIC077-222045-
/O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0004.110522T1957Z-110522T2045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
257 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MARQUETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN...
* UNTIL 345 PM CDT
* AT 256 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WESTFIELD...OR 14 MILES
NORTHEAST OF WISCONSIN DELLS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
WESTFIELD AROUND 310 PM CDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
LAWRENCE...HARRISVILLE...SPRINGFIELD CORNERS AND NESHKORO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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 4396 8920 4374 8949 4372 8956 4375 8959
4389 8959 4398 8951 4399 8918
TIME...MOT...LOC 1958Z 220DEG 37KT 4379 8955
$$
GEHRING1 follow-up statement
797
WWUS53 KMKX 222026
SVSMKX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
326 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 2011
WIC077-222036-
/O.CAN.KMKX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-110522T2045Z/
MARQUETTE WI-
326 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 2011
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN MARQUETTE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.
ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE...AND A TORNADO
WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT.
LAT...LON 4396 8920 4374 8949 4372 8956 4375 8959
4389 8959 4398 8951 4399 8918
TIME...MOT...LOC 2026Z 215DEG 36KT 4403 8931
$$
DDVThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 12:00 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MKX | Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Sheboygan | 7 hr |
| May 22, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 14 min |
| May 22, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marquette | 41 min |
| May 22, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake, Marquette | 14 min |
| May 22, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake | 26 min |
| May 22, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane, Dodge | 34 min |
| May 22, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Dodge, Jefferson | 39 min |
| May 22, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Rock | 49 min |
| May 22, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 42 min | |
| May 22, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 51 min |
| May 22, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Washington | 46 min |
| May 22, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Rock, Walworth, Waukesha | 45 min |
| May 22, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Sauk | 51 min |
| May 22, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington | 35 min |
| May 22, 6:28 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 92 min | |
| May 22, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Waukesha | 24 min |
| May 22, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 36 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.