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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS La Crosse, WI

May 27, 1993Buffalo County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1993, 5:25 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1993, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1993, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
65 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, 10.4 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 1993-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 1993-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 344 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
559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
344 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
488 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLSE 272225
SVRLSE
WIC011-272330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
525 PM CDT THU MAY 27 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM CDT
    FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...BUFFALO COUNTY
 
AT 524 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MAXVILLE...OR
60 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA CROSSE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES
AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT MAXVILLE...MODENA...GILMANTON...AND MONDOVI
BETWEEN 530 AND 630 PM.
 
 
THIS STORM IS GOING TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.  GO INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
GET OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND MOVE TO A STORM SHELTER NOW.
 
INGRAM
 
NNNN

What 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, May 27, 5:16 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
MNZ017>019-272300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN
515 PM CDT WED MAY 26 1993

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ALONG MISSISSIPPI RIVER NEAR LAKE CITY
   MINNESOTA...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPED RAPIDLY ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
NEAR LAKE CITY MINNESOTA.  BOATERS ON LAKE PEPIN AND THE MISSISSIPPI
RIVER BETWEEN LAKE CITY AND WABASHA SHOULD SEE SAFE HARBOR AND BE
PREPARED FOR DEADLY LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...AND HEAVY
RAIN.

SCS
Special weather statement, May 27, 5:21 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
WIZ010-014-280600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
525 PM CDT THU MAY 27 1993

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING...

SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING BETWEEN IN WEST
CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA.  THE SHOWERS STRETCHED
FROM EAU CLAIRE TO NEAR ROCHESTER AND ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST
OR SOUTHEAST AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 65 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA CROSSE
NEAR DURAND.  HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE
CERTAINLY POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

WESTERN WISCONSIN AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA ARE BEING MONITORED CLOSELY
FOR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH.  MOVE INDOORS WHEN THUNDERSTORMS
APPROACH.

INGRAM

Nearby

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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.