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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 13, 1990Buffalo County, Wisconsin

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1990-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1326 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1990-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -50 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.