Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 1, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2005, 1:52 PM CST for Mitchell County, Iowa. It was in force for 23 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
- Mar 30, 2005, 1:52 PM CST (19:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2005, 2:15 PM CST
- In force
- 23 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), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 8:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 1316 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KARX 301952 TORARX IAC131-302015- /O.NEW.KARX.TO.W.0001.050330T1952Z-050330T2015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 152 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA * UNTIL 215 PM CST * AT 152 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STATE ROAD 9 AND COUNTY S 70...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF MASON CITY. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MITCHELL AND OSAGE AROUND 200 PM CST... ST. ANSGAR AND HIGHWAY 18 AND COUNTY T 38 AROUND 205 PM CST... TOETERVILLE AND OTRANTO PARK AROUND 210 PM CST... MONA AND OTRANTO AROUND 215 PM CST... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 4321 9322 4322 9282 4349 9272 4349 9304 $$ RIECK
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KARX 302002 SVSARX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 201 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005 IAC131-302015- /O.CON.KARX.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-050330T2015Z/ MITCHELL IA- 201 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 PM CST FOR MITCHELL COUNTY... AT 201 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A POSSIBLE TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF STATE ROAD 9 AND COUNTY T 26...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF OSAGE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 35 MPH. THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...OSAGE SPRING PARK AND COUNTY ROADS A 39 AND S 70 AROUND 200 PM CST...MITCHELL AND OSAGE AROUND 205 PM CST...ST. ANSGAR AND HIGHWAY 218 AND COUNTY T 40 AROUND 210 PM CST...MONA AND STACYVILLE AROUND 215 PM CST... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 4321 9322 4322 9282 4349 9272 4349 9304 $$ RIECK
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ARX | Mitchell | 30 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.