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Tornado Warning 16, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 23, 2004Monroe County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2004, 7:06 PM CDT for Monroe County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 9 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 23, 2004, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 9 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Monroe County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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.

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 00:00Z, 0.1 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 371 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

894 
WFUS53 KARX 240006
TORARX
WIC081-240015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
706 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MONROE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 706 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR WARRENS...
  OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF TOMAH. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT
  45 MPH.

A TORNADO HAS BEEN SPOTTED NEAR INTERSTATE 94 AT WARRENS TAKE
COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND 
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR A STURDY BUILDING.
AS A LAST RESORT...LAY FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.

LAT...LON 4399 9031 4402 9040 4405 9056 4408 9058
      4416 9053 4416 9031 4399 9031

$$

MW

The office that day

Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Juneau	58 min
Jun 23, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Richland	52 min
Jun 23, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Adams	65 min
Jun 23, 7:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Juneau	29 min
Jun 23, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Adams	50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.