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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 4, 2016Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2016, 5:26 PM CDT for Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 23 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 4, 2016, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2016, 5:49 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

County Fond du Lac County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1314 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 215 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

375 
WFUS53 KMKX 042226
TORMKX
WIC039-042300-
/O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0004.160604T2226Z-160604T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
526 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN FOND DU LAC COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT
    
* AT 525 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
  WAS LOCATED NEAR WAUPUN...MOVING EAST AT 15 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...
  WAUPUN AROUND 550 PM CDT. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE ALTO.

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 YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER
AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 4369 8861 4363 8861 4363 8888 4371 8886
TIME...MOT...LOC 2225Z 280DEG 11KT 4367 8882 

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

$$

GEHRING

3 follow-up statements

091 
WWUS53 KMKX 042236
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
536 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2016

WIC039-042300-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160604T2300Z/
FOND DU LAC WI-
536 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2016

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN FOND DU LAC COUNTY...
    
AT 534 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR WAUPUN...MOVING EAST AT 15 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. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAUPUN AND ALTO. 

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 YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 4369 8861 4363 8861 4363 8886 4371 8884
TIME...MOT...LOC 2234Z 280DEG 11KT 4366 8878 

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

$$

WOOD

088 
WWUS53 KMKX 042245
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
545 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2016

WIC039-042300-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160604T2300Z/
FOND DU LAC WI-
545 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2016

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN FOND DU LAC COUNTY...
    
AT 544 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER WAUPUN...MOVING EAST AT 15 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. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAUPUN.

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 YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 4366 8865 4363 8865 4363 8881 4368 8879
TIME...MOT...LOC 2244Z 280DEG 11KT 4365 8874 

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

$$

WOOD

340 
WWUS53 KMKX 042249
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
549 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2016

WIC039-042259-
/O.CAN.KMKX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160604T2300Z/
FOND DU LAC WI-
549 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN FOND DU LAC COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
                
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 CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 4366 8865 4363 8865 4363 8881 4368 8879
TIME...MOT...LOC 2248Z 280DEG 11KT 4365 8872 

$$

WOOD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 3:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Dodge	39 min
Jun 4, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Dodge	49 min
Jun 4, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Washington	44 min
Jun 4, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Green Lake	40 min
Jun 4, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Kenosha	43 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.