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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 30, 2014Dane County, Iowa County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 2014, 4:42 PM CDT for Dane County, Iowa County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 18 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: Jun 30, 2014, 4:42 PM CDT (21:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2014, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

Counties Dane County, WI, Iowa County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 30, 2:03 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 1426 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 253 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 15.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

649 
WFUS53 KMKX 302142
TORMKX
WIC025-049-302200-
/O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0011.140630T2142Z-140630T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
442 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN DANE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN...
  EAST CENTRAL IOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN...

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT
    
* AT 442 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF MOUNT HOREB...MOVING EAST AT 50
  MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MOUNT HOREB AND BLACK EARTH AROUND 455 PM CDT.
  WESTERN MADISON...VERONA AND CROSS PLAINS AROUND 500 PM CDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
BARNEVELD...PINE BLUFF...BLUE MOUND ST PARK...RIDGEWAY AND BLUE
MOUNDS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR 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 4292 9001 4302 9006 4318 8959 4296 8951
TIME...MOT...LOC 2142Z 253DEG 43KT 4299 8993 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

DDV

2 follow-up statements

527 
WWUS53 KMKX 302156
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
456 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2014

WIC025-049-302200-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-140630T2200Z/
DANE WI-IOWA WI-
456 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2014

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR WEST
CENTRAL DANE AND EASTERN IOWA COUNTIES...
    
AT 454 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER MOUNT HOREB...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

IOWA COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED TREES DOWN FROM DODGEVILLE WEST 
TO NEAR LIVINGSTON IN GRANT COUNTY AT 450 PM.

HAZARD...TORNADO. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
         SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE 
         TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE DAMAGE IS 
         LIKELY. 

THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
WEST CENTRAL DANE AND EASTERN IOWA COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS...PINE BLUFF AND BLUE MOUNDS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR 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 4294 8980 4308 8987 4315 8967 4318 8959
      4296 8951
TIME...MOT...LOC 2154Z 256DEG 47KT 4303 8971 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

MARQUARDT

561 
WWUS53 KMKX 302203
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
503 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2014

WIC025-049-302212-
/O.EXP.KMKX.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-140630T2200Z/
DANE WI-IOWA WI-
503 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL DANE AND EASTERN IOWA
COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  HOWEVER GUSTY
WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING STILL REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR
WEST CENTRAL DANE AND EASTERN IOWA COUNTIES.

LAT...LON 4294 8980 4308 8987 4315 8967 4318 8959
      4296 8951
TIME...MOT...LOC 2159Z 253DEG 43KT 4303 8971 

$$

MARQUARDT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 9:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Sauk	20 min
Jun 29, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Iowa, Sauk	47 min
Jun 29, 10:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Iowa	51 min
Jun 29, 10:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MKX	Dane, Iowa	31 min
Jun 29, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane	51 min
Jun 29, 11:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MKX	Dane	3 hr
Jun 29, 11:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MKX	Green, Lafayette	3 hr
Jun 29, 11:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MKX	Columbia, Green Lake	3 hr
Jun 29, 11:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Rock	30 min
Jun 30, 12:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MKX	Jefferson, Rock	3 hr
Jun 30, 12:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Rock	28 min
Jun 30, 12:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Ozaukee, Washington	35 min
Jun 30, 1:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Ozaukee, Sheboygan	27 min
Jun 30, 1:27 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		33 min
Jun 30, 2:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Rock	22 min
Jun 30, 10:45 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Rock	8 days
Jun 30, 10:45 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Green, Rock	4 days
Jun 30, 11:04 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Kenosha	8 days
Jun 30, 2:45 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	MKX		28 hr
Jun 30, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Iowa, Lafayette	40 min
Jun 30, 4:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Iowa	31 min
Jun 30, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane, Green, Iowa, Lafayette, Rock, Sauk	46 min
Jun 30, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Jefferson, Rock, Walworth and 1 more	49 min
Jun 30, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac	31 min
Jun 30, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		108 min
Jun 30, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Jefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine, Walworth, Waukesha	38 min
Jun 30, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge, Jefferson, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha	45 min
Jun 30, 6:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Ozaukee, Sheboygan	42 min

Nearby

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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.