Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1994, 6:50 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 1994, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1994, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 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, 11.8 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
- 1954 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS1 KLSE 302350
SVRARX
WIC011-121-310045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
650 PM CDT MON MAY 30 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
...BUFFALO COUNTY...NORTHERN TREMPEALEAU COUNTY
AT 650 PM...RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 65 MILES
NORTHWEST OF LA CROSSE NEAR DURAND. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE NEAR MAXVILLE ABOUT 655 PM AND MONDOVI
AT ABOUT 705 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.
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS SOMETIMES PRODUCE TORNADOS WITH LITTLE OR
NO WARNING. SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING AND BE
PREPARED TO QUICKLY MOVE TO THE BASEMENT.
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, May 30, 3:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
WIZ032>034-041-042-053-054-302200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 355 PM CDT MON MAY 30 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE WELL NORTHWEST OF LA CROSSE... AT 350 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS WELL NORTHWEST OF LA CROSSE AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED JUST NORTH OF THE TWIN CITIES AT 320 PM. EVEN THOUGH NO STORMS WERE ANYWHERE IN THE LA CROSSE AREA... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BETWEEN 6 AND 10 PM. SOME OF THESE COULD BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...SO HOLIDAY BOATERS AND CAMPERS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR MOST OF THE AREA... EXCEPTz FOR ADJACENT COUNTIES SOUTH OF LA CROSSE. KEEP LISTENING FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION ON RADIO...TV...OR WEATHER RADIO. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, May 30, 5:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
WIZ032>034-041-042-053-054-310000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 530 PM CDT MON MAY 30 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE WELL NORTHWEST OF LA CROSSE... AT 530 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE ABOUT 100 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA CROSSE AND HAD TURNED TO MORE OF AN EAST-SOUTHEAST MOVEMENT AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. EARLIER...THERE WERE NUMEROUS REPORTS OF MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND TREES DOWN NEAR THE TWIN CITIES AREA AS THESE STORMS PASSED THROUGH. BETWEEN 6 AND 8 PM...THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE MOVING INTO MONDOVI... STRUM AND OSSEO AREAS...OR ABOUT 50 TO 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA CROSSE. THESE COULD BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...SO HOLIDAY BOATERS AND CAMPERS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR MOST OF THE AREA... EXCEPT FOR ADJACENT COUNTIES SOUTH OF LA CROSSE. KEEP LISTENING FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION ON RADIO...TV...OR WEATHER RADIO. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, May 30, 6:12 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
MNZ074>079-082>088-091>096-310015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 612 PM CDT MON MAY 30 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA... A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE STARTING TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. AT 6PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE 30 MILES WEST OF ROCHESTER AND SHOULD MOVE THROUGH OWATONNA BY 620PM AND APPROACH ROCHESTER BY 7PM. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS 25 MILES WEST OF RED WING AND SHOULD MOVE THROUGH CANNON FALLS BY 620PM AND REACH RED WING BEFORE 7PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS...EXPECT SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AND INTENSIFY ACROSS SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA THIS EVENING. PERSONS FROM RED WING TO ROCHESTER AND WINONA SHOULD GO INDOORS UNTIL THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ENDED. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA UNTIL 10PM. SCS STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, May 30, 6:13 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
MNZ074>079-082>088-091>096-310015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 612 PM CDT MON MAY 30 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA... A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE STARTING TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. AT 6PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE 30 MILES WEST OF ROCHESTER AND SHOULD MOVE THROUGH OWATONNA BY 620PM AND APPROACH ROCHESTER BY 7PM. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS 25 MILES WEST OF RED WING AND SHOULD MOVE THROUGH CANNON FALLS BY 620PM AND REACH RED WING BEFORE 7PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS...EXPECT SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AND INTENSIFY ACROSS SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA THIS EVENING. PERSONS FROM RED WING TO ROCHESTER AND WINONA SHOULD GO INDOORS UNTIL THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ENDED. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA UNTIL 10PM. SCS STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
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.