Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1995, 2:57 PM CDT for Jackson County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 1995, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1995, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 2380 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLSE 311957 RRA SVRLSE WIC053-312045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 257 PM CDT MON JUL 31 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...JACKSON COUNTY AT 255 PM...RADAR INDICATED AT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BLACK RIVER FALLS...OR ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF LA CROSSE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF BLACK RIVER FALLS BY 310 PM AND PRAY BY 330 PM. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL 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. LUSSKY 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 31, 10:11 AM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
WIZ017-041-042-053-054-311800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1012 AM CDT MON JUL 31 1995 ...HEAT ADVISORY CONTINUED FOR TODAY... A HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF WISCONSIN TODAY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF LA CROSSE. TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S...AND HEAT INDICES OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES CAN BE EXPECTED. PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO THE HEAT...COMBINED WITH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY CAN CAUSE HEAT EXHAUSTION AND HEAT STROKE. DRINK PLENTY OF WATER AND STAY IN AN AIR-CONDITIONED BUILDING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. THE ELDERLY VERY YOUNG...AND PERSONS WITH HEART CONDITIONS OR ON MEDICATION ARE MOST AT RISK. COUCH
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 10:12 AM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
WIZ017-041-042-053-054-311800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1012 AM CDT MON JUL 31 1995 ...HEAT ADVISORY CONTINUED FOR TODAY... A HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF WISCONSIN TODAY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF LA CROSSE. TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S...AND HEAT INDICES OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES CAN BE EXPECTED. PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO THE HEAT...COMBINED WITH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY CAN CAUSE HEAT EXHAUSTION AND HEAT STROKE. DRINK PLENTY OF WATER AND STAY IN AN AIR-CONDITIONED BUILDING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. THE ELDERLY VERY YOUNG...AND PERSONS WITH HEART CONDITIONS OR ON MEDICATION ARE MOST AT RISK. COUCH
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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.