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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS La Crosse, WI

July 27, 1993Buffalo County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1993, 5:00 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 1993, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1993, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS La Crosse, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Buffalo County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 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 12:00Z on 1993-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1993-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 132 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
895 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
237 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningARXBuffalo30 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.