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Tornado Warning 12, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2004, 2:49 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Iowa. It was in force for 56 min. 4 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
- Jun 16, 2004, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2004, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mitchell County, IA
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2:53 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 E Osage, IA | BRIEF TOUCHDOWN AT HIGHWAY 218 AND HIGHWAY 9 INTERSECTION. |
| Jun 16, 2:53 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 E Osage, IA | BRIEF TOUCHDOWN AT HIGHWAY 218 AND HIGHWAY 9 INTERSECTION. |
| Jun 16, 3:02 PM CDT | TORNADO | 7 N Floyd, IA | REPORTED ALONG THE COUNTY LINE AND MOVING SOUTH SOUTHWEST. |
| Jun 16, 3:02 PM CDT | TORNADO | 7 N Floyd, IA | REPORTED ALONG THE COUNTY LINE AND MOVING SOUTH SOUTHWEST. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 161949 TORARX IAC131-162045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 249 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 249 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO OVER NEW HAVEN...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF OSAGE. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HIGHWAYS 9 AND 218 AROUND 300 PM CDT... BROWNVILLE AND PIONEER STATE PARK AROUND 310 PM CDT... COUNTY ROADS T 54 AND A 31 AROUND 315 PM CDT... LITTLE CEDAR AND MCINTIRE AROUND 330 PM CDT... BAILEY AROUND 335 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 4323 9276 4323 9257 4346 9260 4346 9284 $$ 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, 2:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Howard | 55 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 |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.