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Tornado Warning 8, NWS La Crosse, WI

August 23, 2006Jackson County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Aug 23, 2006, 5:31 PM CDT for Jackson County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report 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, 5:31 PM CDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 2006, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jackson County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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, 5:50 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	2 S Hatfield, WI	RADIO TRAFFIC VIA SPOTTERS.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 23, 2:32 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KARX 232230
TORARX
WIC053-232315-
/O.NEW.KARX.TO.W.0008.060823T2231Z-060823T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
531 PM CDT WED AUG 23 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 529 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO NEAR EAST FORK CAMPGROUND...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  NEILLSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS TORNADO WARNING
  UPGRADES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR JACKSON
  COUNTY.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  EAST FORK CAMPGROUND AND LAKE ARBUTUS AROUND 530 PM...
  THE BLACK RIVER CORRECTIONAL CENTER AROUND 535 PM...
  SEVENTEEN FLOWAGE AND PRAY AROUND 545 PM...
  POTTERS FLOWAGE AROUND 550 PM...
  CITY POINT AROUND 555 PM...

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

LAT...LON 4417 9059 4444 9081 4445 9081 4446 9080
      4444 9080 4442 9077 4442 9038 4439 9032
      4417 9031

$$

DAS

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KARX 232251
SVSARX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
550 PM CDT WED AUG 23 2006

WIC053-232315-
/O.CON.KARX.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-060823T2315Z/
JACKSON WI-
550 PM CDT WED AUG 23 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR EASTERN
JACKSON COUNTY...

AT 546 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR SEVENTEEN
FLOWAGE...OR 13 MILES SOUTH OF NEILLSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15
MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PRAY AROUND 555 PM...
  POTTERS FLOWAGE AROUND 605 PM...
  CITY POINT AND BEAR BLUFF TOWNSHIP AROUND 615 PM...

CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR A STURDY BUILDING. AS A
LAST RESORT...LAY FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.

LAT...LON 4417 9059 4444 9081 4445 9081 4446 9080
      4444 9080 4442 9077 4442 9038 4439 9032
      4417 9031

$$

DAS

000 
WWUS53 KARX 232301
SVSARX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
601 PM CDT WED AUG 23 2006

WIC053-232315-
/O.CON.KARX.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-060823T2315Z/
JACKSON WI-
601 PM CDT WED AUG 23 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR EASTERN
JACKSON COUNTY...

AT 559 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR POTTERS FLOWAGE...
OR 18 MILES SOUTH OF NEILLSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  CITY POINT AND BEAR BLUFF TOWNSHIP AROUND 610 PM...

CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR A STURDY BUILDING. AS A
LAST RESORT...LAY FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.

LAT...LON 4417 9031 4417 9065 4444 9081 4445 9081
      4446 9080 4444 9080 4442 9077 4442 9038
      4439 9032

$$

DAS

The 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, 5:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Clark	23 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.