Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1994, 4:15 PM CDT for Vernon County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 1994, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 1994, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vernon County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 1083 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KLSE 112115 SVRARX WIC123-112215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 415 PM CDT MON JUL 11 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN ...VERNON COUNTY AT 415 PM...READAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR STODDARD... OF ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF LA CROSSE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE CHASEBURG...COON VALLEY ...AND WESTBY AREAS BETWEEN 415 AND 515 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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 11, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
WIZ041-112100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 305 PM CDT MON JUL 11 1994 TEST...TEST...TEST THIS IS A COMMUNCIATIONS TEST ONLY. BRUCE NNNN
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 4:11 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
MNZ096-112215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 411 PM CDT MON JUL 11 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN HOUSTON COUNTY.... AT 410PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN HOUSTON COUNTY BETWEEN LA CRESENT AND CALEDONIA. AT 400PM HEAVY RAINS AND SOME SMALL HAIL HAD FALLING IN THE CITY OF CALEDONIA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND SHOULD BE IN WISCONSIN BY 445PM. JT
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 4:12 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
MNZ096-112215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 411 PM CDT MON JUL 11 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN HOUSTON COUNTY.... AT 410PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN HOUSTON COUNTY BETWEEN LA CRESENT AND CALEDONIA. AT 400PM HEAVY RAINS AND SOME SMALL HAIL HAD FALLING IN THE CITY OF CALEDONIA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND SHOULD BE IN WISCONSIN BY 445PM. JTR
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Monroe | 57 min |
| Jul 11, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Crawford | 31 min |
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.