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Tornado Warning 10, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2005, 4:58 PM CDT for Clark County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 34 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 4, 2005, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2005, 5:32 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clark County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 633 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KARX 042158 TORARX WIC019-042230- /O.NEW.KARX.TO.W.0010.050604T2158Z-050604T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 458 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS EXTENDED THE * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLARK COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 458 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CURTISS...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDFORD. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... DORCHESTER AROUND 515 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 4492 9055 4489 9043 4503 9029 4502 9050 $$ BOYNE
4 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KARX 042205 SVSARX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 504 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 WIC019-042230- /O.CON.KARX.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-050604T2230Z/ CLARK WI- 504 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR CLARK COUNTY... AT 504 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CURTISS...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDFORD. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...DORCHESTER AROUND 515 PM CDT... TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 4492 9055 4489 9043 4503 9029 4502 9050 $$ BOYNE
000 WWUS53 KARX 042212 SVSARX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 512 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 WIC019-042230- /O.CON.KARX.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-050604T2230Z/ CLARK WI- 512 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR CLARK COUNTY... AT 512 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES NORTH OF CURTISS...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDFORD. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING BRIEF TORNADOES. TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 4492 9055 4489 9043 4503 9029 4502 9050 $$ BOYNE
000 WWUS53 KARX 042220 SVSARX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 519 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 WIC019-042230- /O.CON.KARX.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-050604T2230Z/ CLARK WI- 519 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR CLARK COUNTY... AT 519 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF CURTISS...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF MEDFORD. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...DORCHESTER. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 4492 9055 4489 9043 4503 9029 4502 9050 $$ BOYNE
000 WWUS53 KARX 042232 SVSARX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 532 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 WIC019-042242- /O.EXP.KARX.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-050604T2230Z/ CLARK WI- 532 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CLARK COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... THERERFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CLARK COUNTY HAS EXPIRED. LAT...LON 4492 9055 4489 9043 4503 9029 4502 9050 $$ BOYNE
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Clark | 23 min |
| Jun 4, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Taylor | 28 min |
| Jun 4, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Taylor | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.