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Tornado Warning 14, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2004, 5:48 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Houston County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 min. 2 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, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Fillmore County, MN, Houston County, MN
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 6:10 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 7 E Rushford, MN | |
| Jun 16, 6:10 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 7 E Rushford, MN |
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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 190 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.
344 WFUS53 KARX 162248 TORARX MNC045-055-162315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 548 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HOUSTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA FILLMORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 548 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTH OF BRATSBERG...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF CALEDONIA. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... PETERSON AROUND 555 PM CDT... RUSHFORD VILLAGE AROUND 600 PM CDT... RUSHFORD AROUND 605 PM CDT... PERKINS AROUND 610 PM CDT... MONEY CREEK AND COUNTY 9 AND SATHER VALLEY ROAD AROUND 615 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 PLEASE REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE AND TELL THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4369 9195 4359 9174 4384 9151 4384 9182 $$ DAVIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Fillmore | 67 min |
| Jun 16, 2:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Fillmore | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Olmsted | 3 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.