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Tornado Warning 3, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2003, 8:13 PM CDT for Howard County, Winneshiek County, Iowa. It was in force for 62 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
- Jun 27, 2003, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Howard County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 27, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
094 WFUS53 KARX 280113 TORARX IAC089-191-280215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 810 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HOWARD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST IOWA WINNESHIEK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST IOWA * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 810 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER BONAIR...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF CRESCO...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE DEVELOPING TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR CRESCO AT 820 PM CDT... NEAR KENDALLVILLE AT 825 PM CDT... NEAR BLUFFTON...AND RIDGEWAY AT 840 PM CDT... NEAR BURR OAK AT 845 PM CDT... NEAR DECORAH AT 900 PM CDT... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON 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 LAT...LON 4348 9220 4337 9222 4322 9177 4343 9169 $$ BOYNE
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Howard | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Mitchell | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Winneshiek | 47 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.