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Tornado Warning 19, NWS La Crosse, WI

September 2, 2002Taylor County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Sep 2, 2002, 4:36 PM CDT for Taylor County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 54 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
Sep 2, 2002, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired
Sep 2, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS La Crosse, WI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Taylor County, WI

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 2, 1:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 227 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2002-09-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2002-09-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 163 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-474 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1493 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
174 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.

239 
WFUS53 KARX 022136
TORLSE
WIC119-022230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
436 PM CDT MON SEP 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TAYLOR COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 436 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 13 MILES WEST OF JUMP RIVER...OR ABOUT 4 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF LADYSMITH...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE DEVELOPING TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR JUMP RIVER AT 450 PM CDT...
  NEAR WESTBORO...AND CHELSEA AT 530 PM CDT...

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

LAT...LON 4551 9110 4534 9114 4515 9009 4542 9002

BOYNE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 2, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXBuffalo60 min
Sep 2, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXClark54 min
Sep 2, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WarningARXTaylor64 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Wisconsin, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002

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.