Alert archive / Wisconsin / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 1992, 10:16 PM CDT for Crawford County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 1992, 10:16 PM CDT (03:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 1992, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 266 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
- 167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
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, Sep 16, 7:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
WIZ010-014-170145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 745 PM CDT WED SEP 16 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 11 PM FOR BUFFALO AND TREMPEALEAU COUNTIES... AT 745 PM...NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN THE LA CROSSE AREA. HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FURTHER WEST ALONG A COLD FRONT MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD AFFECT BUFFALO AND TREMPEALEAU COUNTIES... THE ADJACENT COUNTIES NORTH OF L2A CROSSE...BETWEEN 9 AND 11 PM THIS EVENING. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD KEEP LISTENING FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION ON RADIO...TV...OR WEATHER RADIO. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Sep 16, 8:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
MNZ019-170230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 815 PM CDT WED SEP 16 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHCENTRAL AND PARTS SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA HAS EXPIRED AT 8 PM... AT 810PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN STEELE COUNTY ...OVER THE CITY OF OWATONNA. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND UP TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE FROM THESE STORMS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. BY 830 PM...THE STORMS WILL BE NEAR WEST CONCORD...23 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROCHESTER. BY 900 PM..THE STORMS WILL BE IN THE ROCHESTER AREA. MOTORISTS TRAVELING THROUGH THE THUNDERSTORMS PATH SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DUE TO HEAVY DOWNPOURS. TESKE
Special weather statement, Sep 16, 8:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
MNZ019-170330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 850 PM CDT WED SEP 16 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA... AT 845PM...RADAR DEPICTED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA. THIS LINE EXTENDED FROM LAKE CITY ...16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RED WING TO HAYFIELD...22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROCHESTER. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF ROCHESTER AND NEAR ZUMBRO FALLS...18 MILES NORTH OF ROCHESTER. MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE ROCHESTER AREA AT 900 PM AND REACHING MINNESOTA CITY BY 1000PM. HEAVY DOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE FROM THESE STORMS. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD TAKE SHELTER UNTIL THEY PASS. TESKE
Special weather statement, Sep 16, 9:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
WIZ010-014-170300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 915 PM CDT WED SEP 16 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 11 PM FOR BUFFALO AND TREMPEALEAU COUNTIES... AT 915 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO AREAS 50 TO 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA CROSSE NEAR MAXVILLE AND NELSON. THE STORMS EXTENDED FURTHER SOUTH ALONG A COLD FRONT MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT BUFFALO AND TREMPEALEAU COUNTIES...THE ADJACENT COUNTIES NORTH OF LA CROSSE...THROUGH 11 PM THIS EVENING. A PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WILL OCCUR WITH THE STRONGER STORMS ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD KEEP LISTENING FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION ON RADIO...TV...OR WEATHER RADIO. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Sep 16, 9:38 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
MNZ019-170330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 930 PM CDT WED SEP 16 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED IN SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA... AT 925PM...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY...WHILE THE STRONGEST STORM HAS MOVED ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER INTO WISCONSIN. SHOWERS AND EVEN SOME THUNDER STILL EXISTS FROM ROCHESTER TO WABASHA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. BRIEF DOWNPOURS AND OCCASSIONAL LIGHTNING IS POSSIBLE. THE THUNDERSHOWERS ARE EXPECTED TO DEPART THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE STATE BY MIDNIGHT...ALLOWING FOR SKIES TO CLEAR. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE AWARE OF BRIEF DOWNPOURS WHEN TRAVELING ROADWAYS WHERE THUNDERSHOWERS ARE OCCURRING. TESKE
Special weather statement, Sep 16, 9:55 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
WIZ010-014-170400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 955 PM CDT WED SEP 16 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 11 PM FOR BUFFALO AND TREMPEALEAU COUNTIES... AT 955 PM...A LINE OF SHOWERS WITH ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 50 MILES NORTH OF LA CROSSE NEAR OSSEO TO NEAR ALMA... 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA CROSSE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NEAR OSSEO AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR...BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS INDICATED. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING THROUGH BUFFALO AND TREMPEALEAU COUNTIES...THE ADJACENT COUNTIES NORTH OF LA CROSSE... THROUGH 11 PM THIS EVENING. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD GO INDOORS IF A STORM AFFECTS YOUR LOCATIO(N AND KEEP LISTENING FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION ON RADIO...TV...OR WEATHER RADIO. THOMPSON
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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.