Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 15, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2004, 6:50 PM CDT for Jackson County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 25 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 23, 2004, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jackson County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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 23, 6:53 PM CDT | TORNADO | 10 E Black River Falls, WI | |
| Jun 23, 6:53 PM CDT | TORNADO | 10 E Black River Falls, WI |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1093 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
107 WFUS53 KARX 232350 TORARX WIC053-240015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 651 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 651 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF THE SEVENTEEN FLOWAGE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF BLACK RIVER FALLS. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THIS TORNADO WARNING IS AN UPGRADE FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED FOR JACKSON COUNTY. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BEAR BLUFF AND CITY POINT AROUND 700 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 4440 9068 4422 9070 4422 9034 4438 9032 $$ KRC
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 82 min |
| Jun 23, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Trempealeau | 75 min |
| Jun 23, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark, Jackson | 61 min |
| Jun 23, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Crawford, Vernon | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Monroe | 66 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.