Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 9, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2001, 5:43 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 62 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
- Jun 11, 2001, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2001, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 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 22:45 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Urne, WI | |
| Jun 11, 6:25 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Mondovi, 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 11, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 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 112244 TORLSE WIC011-112345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 543 PM CDT MON JUN 11 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BUFFALO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 540 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF MAXVILLE...OR ABOUT 24 MILES WEST OF MONDOVI...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM ALSO HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL. * THE DEVELOPING TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR MONDOVI AT 625 PM CDT... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY NOT BE OCCURRING WHEN THE WARNING IS ISSUED...BUT ONE IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR $$ KRC LAT...LON 4460 9203 4450 9205 4445 9153 4459 9153
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark, Taylor | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Trempealeau | 66 min |
| Jun 11, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.