Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 11, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Sep 11, 2000, 5:13 PM CDT for Grant County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 2000, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 5:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Dickeyville, WI | |
| Sep 11, 5:24 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 54 E | Big Patch, WI |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1636 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1387 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 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 KARX 112214 TORLSE WIC043-112245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 513 PM CDT MON SEP 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 513 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER DICKEYVILLE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF DUBUQUE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE DEVELOPING TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR PLATTEVILLE AT 520 PM CDT TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! $$ WELVAERT LAT...LON 4269 9084 4252 9062 4256 9042 4292 9044
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo, Trempealeau | 77 min |
| Sep 10, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark, Taylor | 73 min |
| Sep 10, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo, Trempealeau | 57 min |
| Sep 10, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark, Taylor | 64 min |
| Sep 11, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 53 min |
| Sep 11, 2:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Clark, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 5:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Richland, Vernon | 24 min |
| Sep 11, 6:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Richland | 34 min |
| Sep 11, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Taylor | 63 min |
| Sep 11, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Grant | 61 min |
| Sep 11, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 63 min |
| Sep 11, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo, Trempealeau | 59 min |
| Sep 11, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Grant | 49 min |
| Sep 11, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Jackson | 74 min |
| Sep 11, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 64 min |
| Sep 11, 6:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Grant | 4 hr |
| Sep 11, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Trempealeau | 28 min |
| Sep 11, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | La Crosse, Monroe | 58 min |
| Sep 11, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Monroe | 55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.