Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1992, 2:42 PM CDT for Crawford County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 1992, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1992, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLSE 251942
SVRLSE
WIC023-252045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
242 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN
...CRAWFORD COUNTY
AT 240 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PRAIRIE DU
CHIEN...60 MILES SOUTH OF LA CROSSE. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE NEAR EASTMAN BY 300 PM. THIS STORM
HAS PRODUCED DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR AT
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN.
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD (MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
THOMPSON
NNNNWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Aug 25, 1:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
WIZ010-014-251930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 125 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992 AT 124 PM...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF LA FARGE...35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LA CROSSE. THE STORM WAS PRODUCING SOME HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE PASSING NEAR MT TABOR AND TOMAH BETWEEN 130 AND 230 PM. MOVE INDOORS WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUDR LOCATION. INGRAM
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 2:08 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
WIZ010-014-252030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 207 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992 AT 205 PM...RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST IOWA. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE VICINITY OF PRAIRIE DU CHIEN...OR IN AREAS 30 TO 60 MILES SOUTH OF LA CROSSE BETWEEN 215 AND 315 PM. HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN WISCONSIN UNTIL 900 PM. MOVE INDOORS WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION. INGRAM
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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.