Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 5, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 2003, 9:48 PM CDT for Dodge County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 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
- Jul 14, 2003, 9:48 PM CDT (02:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2003, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dodge County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 837 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 357 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 466 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
953 WFUS53 KARX 150248 TORARX MNC039-150330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 947 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DODGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 947 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLAREMONT...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF DODGE CENTER...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. THIS TORNADO WARNING IS AN UPGRADE FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED FOR DODGE COUNTY. * THE DEVELOPING TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR CLAREMONT AT 950 PM... NEAR HAYFIELD AT 1000 PM CDT... NEAR OSLO AT 1015 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 THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. GO TO THE BASEMENT IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR LAT...LON 4411 9306 4386 9304 4386 9271 4412 9269 $$ SHEA
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Dodge | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Mower | 64 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.