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Tornado Warning 17, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 23, 2004Juneau County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2004, 7:16 PM CDT for Juneau County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 29 min. 3 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, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Juneau County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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, 7:20 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	3 N Mauston, WI
Jun 23, 7:23 PM CDT	HAIL 2	2 N Buckhorn State Park, WI	TREE TOP BROKEN OFF.
Jun 23, 7:31 PM CDT	HAIL 1	8 Ne New Lisbon, WI	CORRECTED LOCATION FROM PREVIOUS REPORT. HAIL OCCURRED IN GERMANTOWN TOWNSHIP.

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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.

709 
WFUS53 KARX 240016
TORARX
WIC057-240045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  JUNEAU COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 716 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO
  OVER NEW LISBON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF MAUSTON. THE
  TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS TORNADO WARNING IS AN
  UPGRADE FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED FOR JUNEAU
  COUNTY.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BUCKHORN STATE PARK AND KENS MARINA AND CAMPGROUND AROUND 725 PM
  CDT...
  CASTLE ROCK DAM AND THE TOWN OF QUINCY AROUND 730 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 4379 8988 4380 8990 4380 9002 4381 9003
      4383 9021 4398 9021 4400 9019 4400 8997
      4387 8996 4379 8987

$$

KRC

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, 7:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Monroe	9 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, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Adams	50 min

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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.