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Tornado Warning 2, NWS La Crosse, WI

April 28, 2025Clark County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2025, 8:26 PM CDT for Clark County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 34 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: Apr 28, 2025, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2025, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

County Clark County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:29 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
Apr 28, 7:34 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 178 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -455 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 468 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 694 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

752 
WFUS53 KARX 290126
TORARX
WIC019-290200-
/O.NEW.KARX.TO.W.0002.250429T0126Z-250429T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Tornado Warning
National Weather Service La Crosse WI
826 PM CDT Mon Apr 28 2025

The National Weather Service in La Crosse has issued a

* Tornado Warning for...
  Northeastern Clark County in central Wisconsin...

* Until 900 PM CDT.

* At 826 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms capable of producing a tornado
  were located along a line extending from 7 miles south of Thorp to
  9 miles northwest of Neillsville, moving east at 50 mph.

  HAZARD...Tornado.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.

  IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without 
           shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. 
           Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur.  Tree 
           damage is likely.

* These dangerous storms will be near...
  Greenwood around 830 PM CDT.
  Loyal and Owen around 835 PM CDT.
  Abbotsford and Colby around 850 PM CDT.

Other locations impacted by these tornadic storms include County K
And Capital Road, Curtiss, Colby, Atwood, Withee, Riplinger, and
Longwood.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! Move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest
floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a
mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter
and protect yourself from flying debris.

This line of thunderstorms is capable of producing tornadoes and
widespread significant wind damage. Do not wait to see or hear the
tornado. For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest
floor of a building.

&&

LAT...LON 4472 9032 4467 9059 4495 9061 4503 9031
TIME...MOT...LOC 0126Z 256DEG 44KT 4485 9078 4464 9076 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN

$$

Skow

1 follow-up statement

740 
WWUS53 KARX 290153
SVSARX

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service La Crosse WI
853 PM CDT Mon Apr 28 2025

WIC019-290203-
/O.EXP.KARX.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-250429T0200Z/
Clark WI-
853 PM CDT Mon Apr 28 2025

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
900 PM CDT...

The storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 200 AM CDT for central
Wisconsin.

&&

LAT...LON 4472 9032 4467 9059 4495 9061 4503 9031
TIME...MOT...LOC 0153Z 270DEG 44KT 4492 9035 4471 9034 

$$

Skow

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Buffalo	25 min
Apr 28, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Clark	57 min
Apr 28, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Clark	40 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.