Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 11, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2005, 5:02 PM CDT for Taylor County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 28 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, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2005, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Taylor County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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 196 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 042202 TORARX WIC119-042230- /O.NEW.KARX.TO.W.0011.050604T2202Z-050604T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 502 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TAYLOR COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 502 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF MEDFORD. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HIGHWAY 13 AND COUNTY ROAD M AROUND 510 PM CDT... NORTH TWIN LAKE AROUND 515 PM CDT... THE MONDEAUX FLOWAGE AND CHELSEA AROUND 520 PM CDT... RIB LAKE AND WESTBORO AROUND 525 PM CDT... CAMP FOREST SPRING AND LAKE VIEW PARK AROUND 530 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 4512 9048 4513 9031 4538 9005 4538 9046 $$ BOYNE
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KARX 042214 SVSARX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 514 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 WIC119-042230- /O.CON.KARX.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-050604T2230Z/ TAYLOR WI- 514 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR TAYLOR COUNTY... AT 514 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES EAST OF ESADORE LAKE...OR ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MEDFORD. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...NORTH TWIN LAKE AROUND 520 PM CDT...THE MONDEAUX FLOWAGE AND CHELSEA AROUND 525 PM CDT...RIB LAKE AND WESTBORO AROUND 530 PM CDT... TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 4504 9050 4504 9040 4538 9005 4538 9046 $$ BOYNE
000 WWUS53 KARX 042223 SVSARX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 521 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 WIC119-042230- /O.CON.KARX.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-050604T2230Z/ TAYLOR WI- 521 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR TAYLOR COUNTY... AT 521 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF HIGHWAY 13 AND COUNTY ROAD M...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF MEDFORD. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...RIB LAKE AND WESTBORO AROUND 530 PM CDT. ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROAD A AND COUNTY ROAD E SOUTHWEST OF MEDFORD. THIS TORNADO WILL BE JUST WEST OF MEDFORD AROUND 530 PM. BOTH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 4504 9050 4504 9040 4538 9005 4538 9046 $$ 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, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Clark | 34 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.