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Tornado Warning 3, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 1, 2000Monroe County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2000, 3:10 PM CDT for Monroe County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2000, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2000, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Monroe County, WI

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 1, 3:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Tunnel City, WI
Jun 1, 3:32 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Tunnel City, 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
Jun 1, 1:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 244 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: 484 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 288 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KARX 012010
TORLSE
WIC081-012045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
310 PM CDT THU JUN 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MONROE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 310 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO OVER
  CATARACT...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF SPARTA...MOVING EAST AT 15
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR FORT MC COY AT 325 PM CDT
  NEAR WARRENS AND KIRBY AT 340 PM CDT

TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

BAUMGARDT

LAT...LON 4408 9100 4396 9083 4402 9032 4416 9051
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Grant	56 min
May 31, 9:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Grant	4 hr
May 31, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Grant	64 min
May 31, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Crawford, Vernon	65 min
May 31, 11:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Vernon	3 hr
Jun 1, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Richland	69 min
Jun 1, 12:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Crawford, Richland	6 hr
Jun 1, 1:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Grant	4 hr
Jun 1, 2:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Vernon	3 hr
Jun 1, 6:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Crawford, Richland, Vernon	4 hr
Jun 1, 10:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Crawford, Richland, Vernon	6 hr
Jun 1, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Trempealeau	60 min
Jun 1, 2:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Jackson, Trempealeau	3 hr
Jun 1, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe	53 min
Jun 1, 3:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Juneau	55 min
Jun 1, 3:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Monroe	27 min
Jun 1, 4:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Adams	56 min
Jun 1, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Richland, Vernon	66 min
Jun 1, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Juneau	60 min
Jun 1, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Grant	38 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.