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Tornado Warning 9, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2005, 4:37 PM CDT for Clark County, Wisconsin. 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
- Jun 4, 2005, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 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), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 198 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 042137 TORARX WIC019-042200- /O.NEW.KARX.TO.W.0009.050604T2137Z-050604T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 437 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLARK COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 437 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO OVER COUNTY K AND CAPITAL ROAD...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTH OF NEILLSVILLE. THIS SAME THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED A TORNADO 2 MILES WEST OF LOYAL AT 432 PM. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ATWOOD AROUND 450 PM CDT... OWEN AND CURTISS AROUND 455 PM CDT... ABBOTSFORD AROUND 500 PM CDT... 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 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 4476 9073 4469 9050 4498 9026 4503 9055 $$ BOYNE
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KARX 042144 SVSARX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 444 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 WIC019-042200- /O.CON.KARX.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-050604T2200Z/ CLARK WI- 444 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR CLARK COUNTY... LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCH DOWN 2 MILES WEST OF LOYAL AT 432 PM. AT 444 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER COUNTY K AND CAPITAL ROAD...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTH OF NEILLSVILLE. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...ATWOOD AND LONGWOOD AROUND 450 PM CDT... ABBOTSFORD AND OWEN AROUND 500 PM CDT... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 4476 9073 4469 9050 4498 9026 4503 9055 $$ BOYNE
000 WWUS53 KARX 042152 SVSARX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 451 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 WIC019-042200- /O.CON.KARX.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-050604T2200Z/ CLARK WI- 451 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR CLARK COUNTY... LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCH DOWN AT 432 PM 2 MILES WEST OF LOYAL. THERE IS BLEW DOWN A POLE BARN AND POWER LINES. AT 451 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER ATWOOD...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDFORD. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...ABBOTSFORD AND CURTISS AROUND 500 PM CDT... 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 4476 9073 4469 9050 4498 9026 4503 9055 $$ BOYNE
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Clark | 34 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.