Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 20, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Sep 2, 2002, 5:26 PM CDT for Taylor County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2002, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Taylor County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 5:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Perkinstown, WI | |
| Sep 2, 5:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Perkinstown, 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 2, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Sep 2, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
788 WFUS53 KARX 022226 TORLSE WIC119-022330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 525 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 630 PM CDT * AT 525 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHELSEA...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF MEDFORD...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE DEVELOPING TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR CHELSEA...AND WESTBORO AT 540 PM CDT... NEAR RIB LAKE AT 550 PM CDT... TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR LAT...LON 4518 9079 4506 9061 4542 9000 4561 9027 BOYNE
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 60 min |
| Sep 2, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Taylor | 54 min |
| Sep 2, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 54 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.