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Tornado Warning 3, NWS La Crosse, WI

March 30, 2005Mower County, Minnesota

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2005, 2:17 PM CST for Mower County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 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, 2:17 PM CST (20:17 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2005, 3:00 PM CST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mower County, MN

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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.

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, 2:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 293 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KARX 302020
TORARX
MNC099-302100-
/O.NEW.KARX.TO.W.0003.050330T2017Z-050330T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
217 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MOWER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 300 PM CST

* AT 217 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM      
  WITH A TORNADO MOVING NORTH FROM MITCHELL COUNTY IOWA...NEAR       
  JOHNSBURG...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF OSAGE. THE STORM            
  AND TORNADO WERE MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ROSE CREEK AND COUNTY ROADS 4 AND 3 AROUND 225 PM CST...
  ELKTON AROUND 230 PM CST...
  GRAND MEADOW AND I 90 EXIT 193 AROUND 235 PM CST...
  RENOVA AND BROWNSDALE AROUND 240 PM CST...
  RACINE AND INTERSTATE 90 AND COUNTY 1 AROUND 245 PM CST...

A TORNADO HAS BEEN SPOTTED MOVING NORTH OUT OF IOWA TAKE COVER IN A 
BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY 
FROM WINDOWS

PLEASE REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE
AND TELL THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4352 9246 4351 9286 4382 9287 4384 9286
      4385 9271 4382 9269 4383 9247

$$

BAUMGARDT

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KARX 302027
SVSARX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
224 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

MNC099-302100-
/O.CON.KARX.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050330T2100Z/
MOWER MN-
224 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST FOR MOWER
COUNTY...

LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND MOVING NORTH 
NEAR THE TOWN OF ADAMS IN SOUTHERN MOWER COUNTY. SPOTTERS REPORT 
THIS TORNADO IS NOT CONSISTENTLY ON THE GROUND. HOWEVER...THE 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS BEEN TRACKING THIS FOR OVER 60 MINUTES 
FROM IOWA.   

AT 224 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TAOPI...OR
ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AUSTIN. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH AT
30 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...TAOPI AND ADAMS AROUND 225 PM CST...ROSE
CREEK AND COUNTY ROADS 4 AND 3 AROUND 230 PM CST...I 90 EXIT 187 AND
ELKTON AROUND 235 PM CST...GRAND MEADOW AND I 90 EXIT 193 AROUND 240 
PM CST.

PLEASE REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE
AND TELL THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

LAT...LON 4352 9246 4351 9286 4382 9287 4384 9286
      4385 9271 4382 9269 4383 9247

$$

BAUMGARDT

000 
WWUS53 KARX 302044
SVSARX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
243 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

MNC099-302100-
/O.CON.KARX.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050330T2100Z/
MOWER MN-
243 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST FOR MOWER
COUNTY...

TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT NEAR ADAMS MOVING 
NORTH WITH THIS STORM OVER THE LAST 40 MINUTES.

AT 243 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER INTERSTATE 90 AND COUNTY 1...OR
ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROCHESTER. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH
AT 40 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...RACINE AROUND 235 PM CST...SARGEANT AND 
COUNTY ROADS 1 AND 7 AROUND 240 PM CST.

PLEASE REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE
AND TELL THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

LAT...LON 4371 9247 4371 9285 4382 9287 4385 9286
      4385 9272 4382 9270 4384 9248

$$

SCHRECK

000 
WWUS53 KARX 302054
SVSARX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
254 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

MNC099-302104-
/O.CAN.KARX.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050330T2100Z/
MOWER MN-
254 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MOWER COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

IMMINENT SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER A THREAT. THE TORNADO THREAT 
HAS MOVED NORTH INTO OLMSTED COUNTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING 
FOR MOWER COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 4371 9247 4371 9285 4382 9287 4385 9286
      4385 9272 4382 9270 4384 9248

$$

BAUMGARDT

The office that day

Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 1:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Dodge	36 min
Mar 30, 2:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Fillmore	37 min
Mar 30, 2:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ARX	Olmsted	67 min
Mar 30, 2:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Houston	35 min
Mar 30, 3:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Wabasha	44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.