Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1990, 1:03 AM CDT for Buffalo County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1990, 1:03 AM CDT (06:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1990, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buffalo County, WI
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1196 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.4
- Supercell composite
- -2.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 10:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
WIZ010-014-130330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1035 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA UNTIL 200 AM...AND FOR EXTREME NORTHEAST IOWA UNTIL 1100 PM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CRAWFORD AND RICHLAND COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN UNTIL 300 AM... AT 1030 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED OVER ALLAMAKEE COUNTY OF EXTREME NORTHEAST IOWA. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING EAST... INTO NORTHERN CRAWFORD...AND SOUTHERN VERNON COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN BETWEEN 1035 AND 1115 PM. PEOPLE IN VERNON AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES ARE URGED TO MONITOR WEATHER RADIO...OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TV...FOR LAT[ER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BRUCE
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 10:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
WIZ014-130500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED HEADER... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1035 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA UNTIL 200 AM...AND FOR EXTREME NORTHEAST IOWA UNTIL 1100 PM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CRAWFORD AND RICHLAND COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN UNTIL 300 AM... AT 1030 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED OVER ALLAMAKEE COUNTY OF EXTREME NORTHEAST IOWA. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING EAST... INTO NORTHERN CRAWFORD...AND SOUTHERN VERNON COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN BETWEEN 1035 AND 1115 PM. PEOPLE IN VERNON AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES ARE URGED TO MONITOR WEATHER RADIO...OR COMMERCIAL \RADIO AND TV...FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BRUCE
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 11:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
WIZ014-130500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1105 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA UNTIL 200 AM...AND FOR EXTREME NORTHEAST IOWA UNTIL 1100 PM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CRAWFORD AND RICHLAND COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN UNTIL 300 AM... AT 1100 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS THE TRI STATE AREA. THE STONGEST STORMS WERE 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LA CROSSE...OR JUST SOUTHWEST OF VIROQUA...AND 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA CROSSE JUST NORTHWEST OF ALMA AND MONDOVI. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS CURRENTLY BEING REPORTED...BUT WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR WERE REPORTED IN SOUTHWESTERN VERNON COUNTY. PEOPLE IN THE LA CROSSE...TRI STATE AREA...ARE URGED TO MONITOR WEATHER RADIO...OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TV...FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBqLE WARNINGS. BRUCE
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 11:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
MNZ-018-019-130030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 1140 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 2AM... AT 11 30 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL FARIBAULT COUNTY...ABOUT MID-WAY BETWEEN BLUE EARTH AND BRICELYN...OR ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF ALBERT LEA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THIS THUNDERSTORM AS IT MOVES EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS AT THE SOUTHERN END OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN MINNESOTA THRU THE WASECA/OWATONNA AREA...JUST NORTH OF ROCHESTER NEAR PINE ISLAND TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF WINONA. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF MINNESOTA EAST OF A LINE FROM ROCHESTER THRU SPRING VALLEY TO THE IOWA BORDER SOUTH OF ROCHESTER. HEAVY TO LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ACCOMPANY MANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE TOWARD THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. DOM
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 11:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
WIZ014-130500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1145 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE LA CROSSE AREA... AT 1140 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE LA CROSSE AREA. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND PEA SIZED HAIL. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS CURRENTLY BEING REPORTED...BUT PEOPLE IN THE LA CROSSE...TRI STATE AREA...ARE URGED TO MONITOR WEATHER RADIO...OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TV...FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE LA CROSSE AREA UNTIL 200 AM. BRUCE
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 12:36 AM CDT, 27 minutes before
WIZ014-130700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1235 AM CDT WED JUN 13 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA UNTIL 200 AM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CRAWFORD AND RICHLAND COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN UNTIL 300 AM... AT 1230 AM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LA CROSSE...OR JUST EAST OF VIROQUA. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND PEA SIZED HAIL. OTHERWISE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS THE TRI STATE AREA. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA CROSSE JUST SOUTH OF ALMA...AND 20 MILES SOUTH OF LA CROSSE NEAR NEW ALBIN IOWA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE LA CROSSE...TRI STATE AREA...ARE URGED TO MONITOR WEATHER RADIO...OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TV...FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BRUCE
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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.