Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 15, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2005, 8:08 PM CDT for Clark County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 37 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 7, 2005, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2005, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 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), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 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 7, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1819 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KARX 080109 TORARX WIC019-080145- /O.NEW.KARX.TO.W.0015.050608T0108Z-050608T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 808 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLARK COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 808 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED TORNADOES ON THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES SOUTH OF MEDFORD TO 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEILLSVILLE. THE TORNADOES WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS TORNADO WARNING IS AN UPGRADE FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED FOR CLARK COUNTY. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... UNITY AROUND 815 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 4502 9059 4478 9061 4478 9031 4503 9031 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KARX 080118 SVSARX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 817 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 WIC019-080145- /O.CON.KARX.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-050608T0145Z/ CLARK WI- 817 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR CLARK COUNTY... AT 817 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES SOUTH OF MEDFORD TO 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEILLSVILLE. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS LINE HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING BRIEF TORNADOES. TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 4502 9059 4478 9061 4478 9031 4503 9031 $$ BOYNE
000 WWUS53 KARX 080124 SVSARX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 824 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 WIC019-080145- /O.CON.KARX.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-050608T0145Z/ CLARK WI- 824 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR CLARK COUNTY... WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 1 MILE NORTH OF DORCHESTER. THIS STORM WILL CROSS INTO MARATHON COUNTY SHORTLY. SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE DORCHESTER AND ABBOTSFORD. TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 4502 9059 4478 9061 4478 9031 4503 9031 $$ SHEA
000 WWUS53 KARX 080131 SVSARX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 831 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 WIC019-080145- /O.CON.KARX.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-050608T0145Z/ CLARK WI- 831 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR CLARK COUNTY... AT 830 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO JUST NORTHEAST OF NEILLSVILLE. DOPPLER RADAR IS SHOWING STRONG ROTATION AND POSSIBLY A DEVELOPING TORNADO. THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO THREAT NEAR DORCHESTER. SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...ABBOTSFORD... DORCHESTER...LOYAL...NEILLSVILLE...AND SHORTVILLE. TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 4502 9059 4443 9063 4443 9033 4503 9031 $$ SHEA
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 54 min |
| Jun 7, 7:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Clark | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Taylor | 33 min |
| Jun 7, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Clark | 47 min |
| Jun 7, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Jackson, Trempealeau | 62 min |
| Jun 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Jackson | 52 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.