Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS La Crosse, WI
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.
- 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
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
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, 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
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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.