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Tornado Warning 10, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 17, 2001Buffalo County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2001, 8:37 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 2001, 8:37 PM CDT (01:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS La Crosse, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Buffalo County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2001-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 38 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2001-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 116 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
38 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

291 
WFUS53 KARX 180137
TORLSE
WIC011-180230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
837 PM CDT SUN JUN 17 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BUFFALO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 837 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF GILMANTON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES   
SOUTHWEST OF MONDOVI...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE DEVELOPING TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  RURAL BUFFALO COUNTY AT 850 PM CDT

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

$$

RABERDING

LAT...LON 4453 9173 4441 9182 4436 9155 4449 9154

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXBuffalo58 min
Jun 17, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXTrempealeau49 min
Jun 17, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXJackson67 min
Jun 17, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXAdams, Juneau60 min
Jun 17, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXBuffalo60 min
Jun 17, 9:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningARXBuffalo3 hr
Jun 17, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXMonroe65 min
Jun 17, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXTrempealeau53 min
Jun 17, 10:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXLa Crosse58 min
Jun 17, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXJuneau58 min
Jun 17, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXMonroe61 min
Jun 17, 11:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXAdams32 min
Jun 17, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXVernon59 min
Jun 18, 1:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXVernon56 min
Jun 18, 1:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXRichland55 min
Jun 18, 4:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXGrant55 min
Jun 18, 6:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXLa Crosse57 min
Jun 18, 6:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXTrempealeau54 min
Jun 18, 6:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXTrempealeau20 min
Jun 18, 7:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXClark60 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.