Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1994, 4:04 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1994, 4:04 PM CDT (21:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1994, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buffalo County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 290 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
- 537 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 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 072104 SVRLSE WIC011-072200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 404 PM CDT THU JUL 7 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...BUFFALO COUNTY AT 402 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST OF ALMA ...OR ABOUT 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA CROSSE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE AFFECTING PRAGG...WAUMANDEE...AND GILMANTON BETWEEN 405 AND 500 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. BRUCE 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, Jul 7, 2:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
MNZ092-093-094-070800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 202 AM CDT THU JUL 7 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... AT 2 PM RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF ALBERT LEA NEAR JOICE IOWA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH- NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE TRAVELLING ON I-35 SOUTH OF ALBERT LEA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ENCOUNTER HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS BETWEEN 215 AND 245 PM. ALSO PEOPLE NEAR THE TOWNS OF TWIN LAKES AND GORDONSVILLE SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS STORM AS IT WILL PASS THROUGH THE AREA BY 215 PM. IF STORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER AND DO NOT USE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. ETJ
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 2:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
WIZ032>034-041-042-053-054-072100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 225 PM CDT THU JUL 7 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 800 PM... AT 220 PM...RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN EXTREME NE IOWA NEAR WAUKON OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LA CROSSE. NO MOVEMENT HAS YET BEEN DETERMINED ON THESE STORMS. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST WEST OF WINONA AND ALSO TO THE EAST OF GAYS MILLS ABOU(T 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LA CROSSE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. MOVE INDOORS IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION. ALBRECHT
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 2:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
MNZ077-078-079-084-085-086-087-088-092-093-094-095-070845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 236 AM CDT THU JUL 7 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN MINNESOTA... AT 230 PM TWO AREAS OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN MINNESOTA. ONE AREA EXTENDED FROM EYOTA TO NEAR PLAINVIEW OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROCHESTER. THE OTHER AREA WAS NEAR THE IOWA BORDER NEAR TWIN LAKES AND I-35. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PLACES SUCH AS ALBERT LEA AND WABASHA CAN EXPECT TO SEE THESE STORMS PASS THROUGH THEIR AREAS BY 3 PM. ALSO MOTORISTS ON I-35 NEAR ALBERT LEA SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS STORM. HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. IF IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...TAKE SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THEY PASS. ETJ
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 2:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
MNZ074-075-076-077-078-079-082-083-084-085-086-087-088-091-092- 093-094-095-070900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 259 AM CDT THU JUL 7 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 8 PM FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA... ...MORE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER SOUTHERN MINNESOTA... AT 3 PM RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR PLAINVIEW OR 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROCHESTER. ANOTHER STORM THAT WAS RAPIDLY BUILDING WAS ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF MANKATO AND OTHER STORMS WERE NEAR FAIRMONT AND AUSTIN. THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN MANAKTO...FAIRMONT...WHITEWATER STATE PARK AND BLOOMING PRARIE SHOULD ALL BE AWARE OF THESE STORMS AS THEY WILL MOVE THROUGH THEIR AREA BY 330 PM. HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. TAKE SHELTER IF IN THE PATH OF THEM UNTIL THEY PASS YOUR AREA. ETJ
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 3:15 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
WIZ032>034-041-042-053-054-072200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 315 PM CDT THU JUL 7 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 800 PM... AT 310 PM...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA NEAR THE WINONA...WABASHA COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE ALMA AND NELSON AREAS OF BUFFALO COUNTY. PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST BUFFALO COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO THEIR BASEMENTS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS STORM. ALBRECHT
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 3:52 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
WIZ032>034-041-042-053-054-072203- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 351 PM CDT THU JUL 7 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 800 PM... AT 348 PM...RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...IN THE LA CROSSE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA CROSSE NEAR ALMA...10 MILES SOUTH OF LA CROSSE NEAR STODDARD...AND 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LA CROSSE NEAR CALEDONIA MINNESOTA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED AROUND THE IMMEDIATE LA CROSSE AREA THROUGH 600 PM...BUT AT THIS TIME...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS BEING REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM. BE SURE AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THESE STORMS. BRUCE
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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.