Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 7, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Aug 23, 2006, 5:22 PM CDT for Clark County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 23 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2006, 5:22 PM CDT (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2006, 5:45 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), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 5:25 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 3 Sw Neillsville, WI | |
| Aug 23, 5:42 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 4 Nne Hatfield, WI | HAIL REPORT ALONG HIGHWAY 95 ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF THE CLARK-JACKSON COUNTY LINE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1381 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 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 232222
TORARX
WIC019-232245-
/O.NEW.KARX.TO.W.0007.060823T2222Z-060823T2245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
522 PM CDT WED AUG 23 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN...
* UNTIL 545 PM CDT
* AT 521 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SIDNEY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
NEILLSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS TORNADO WARNING
UPGRADES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CLARK COUNTY.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
HIGHWAY 10 AND BALD PEAK ROAD AND SNYDER LAKE AROUND 520 PM...
SIDNEY AROUND 525 PM...
HIGHWAY 95 AND 73 AROUND 530 PM...
SHORTVILLE AROUND 535 PM...
BALLARD ROAD AND PRAY AVENUE AROUND 540 PM...
TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
LAT...LON 4443 9078 4451 9078 4452 9080 4452 9090
4463 9078 4461 9075 4460 9071 4458 9068
4443 9032
$$
DAS1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KARX 232245
SVSARX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
543 PM CDT WED AUG 23 2006
WIC019-232253-
/O.EXP.KARX.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-060823T2245Z/
CLARK WI-
543 PM CDT WED AUG 23 2006
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE AT 545 PM CDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THIS WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.
DIME-SIZE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS STILL POSSIBLE SOUTH OF A
LINE FROM HIGHWAY 95 AND 73 TO NEAR SHORTVILLE.
LAT...LON 4443 9078 4451 9078 4452 9080 4452 9090
4463 9078 4461 9075 4460 9071 4458 9068
4443 9032
$$
DASThe office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 60 min |
| Aug 23, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 65 min |
| Aug 23, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Jackson | 44 min |
| Aug 23, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark, Jackson | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Monroe | 64 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.