Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1994, 4:33 PM CDT for Monroe County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 1994, 4:33 PM CDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 1994, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 209 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 112133 SVRARX WIC081-112230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 433 PM CDT MON JUL 11 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...MONROE COUNTY AT 430 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CASHTON...OR ABOUT 25 MILES EAST OF LA CROSSE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE NORWALK...WILTON...AND KENDALL AREAS BETWEEN 430 AND 530 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 11, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 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, 22 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, 21 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, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Vernon | 60 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.