Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 10, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2004, 2:05 PM CDT for Howard County, Iowa. It was in force for 55 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 16, 2004, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2004, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Howard County, IA
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 421 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
217 WFUS53 KARX 161905 TORARX IAC089-162000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 205 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HOWARD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST IOWA * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 205 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO OVER DAVIS CORNERS...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF CRESCO. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LIME SPRINGS AROUND 230 PM CDT... VERNON SPRINGS AROUND 235 PM CDT... VERNON SPRINGS COUNTY PARK AROUND 240 PM CDT... BONAIR AROUND 245 PM CDT... CRESCO AROUND 255 PM CDT... A TORNADO HAS BEEN SPOTTED TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 4338 9244 4324 9229 4332 9209 4350 9224 $$ KRC &
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Fayette | 4 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Mitchell | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Floyd | 53 min |
| Jun 16, 4:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Howard, Mitchell | 4 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Fayette | 4 hr |
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.