Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1993, 3:19 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1993, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1993, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Buffalo County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 500 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 604 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 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, Jun 8, 12:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
WIZ010-014-081830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1210 AM CDT TUE JUN 8 1993 ...POSSIBLE TORNADO IN NORTHEAST IOWA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WATERLOO IOWA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR THE DECORAH AREA OF NORTHEAST IOWA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR DIRECTLY AT THE CITY OF LA CROSSE. PEOPLE IN LA CROSSE SHOULD MOVE INDOORS AS THIS STORM APPROCHES... AND BE PREPARED TO QUICKXLY MOVE TO THE BASEMENT. IF YOU LIVE IN A TRAILER IT WOULD BE WISE TO LEAVE IT NOW...AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY JUST IN CASE. BRUCE
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 1:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
MNZ018-019-081900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 100 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 1993 ...STORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN FREEBORN INTO STEELE COUNTY... AT 1250 PM RADAR INDICATED A STRONG STORM NEAR CLARKS GROVE... FREEBORN COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL REACH OWATONNA BY 120 PM. SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. TORNADOES ALSO CAN BE SPAWNED WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE NOTICE. STAY INDOORS IF IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM UNTIL IT PASSES. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA UNTIL 5 PM CDT. JONES &
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 1:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
MNZ018-019-081900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 100 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 1993 ...STORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN FREEBORN INTO STEELE COUNTY... AT 1250 PM RADAR INDICATED A STRONG STORM NEAR CLARKS GROVE... FREEBORN COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL REACH OWATONNA BY 120 PM. SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. TORNADOES ALSO CAN BE SPAWNED WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE NOTICE. STAY INDOORS IF IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM UNTIL IT PASSES. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA UNTIL 5 PM CDT. JONES &
Local storm report, Jun 8, 1:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | La Crosse, Vernon | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 1:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | La Crosse, Vernon | 41 min |
| Jun 8, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Monroe | 63 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.