Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 11, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2004, 2:08 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Minnesota. It was in force for 67 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, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2004, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fillmore County, MN
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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 188 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.
000 WFUS53 KARX 161908 TORARX MNC045-162015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 208 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FILLMORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 208 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO 3 MILES EAST OF HUTTON...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PRESTON. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... COUNTY ROADS 12 AND 19 AROUND 215 PM CDT... LENORA AROUND 220 PM CDT... HENRYTOWN AROUND 225 PM CDT... AMHERST AROUND 235 PM CDT... NEWBURG AROUND 245 PM CDT... A TORNADO IS BEING DETECTED BY RADAR. THIS MEANS THAT A TORNADO MAY NOT BE OCCURRING WHEN THE WARNING IS ISSUED...BUT ONE IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 4362 9218 4351 9202 4353 9174 4383 9176 $$ KRC
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Fillmore | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Houston | 27 min |
| Jun 16, 5:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Olmsted | 3 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2004Every tornado warning in 2004Tornadoes in 2004
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.