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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS La Crosse, WI

August 13, 1995Taylor County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1995, 7:58 PM CDT for Taylor County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 13, 1995, 7:58 PM CDT (00:58 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS La Crosse, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Taylor County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 206 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1995-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1788 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1995-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1788 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
758 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLSE 140058 RRA
SVRLSE
WIC119-140200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
758 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...TAYLOR COUNTY
 
AT 755 PM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
NEAR CORNELL...OR ABOUT 30 MILES EAST OF EAU CLAIRE.  THE
STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH...AND WILL REACH GILMAN
AROUND 820 PM.
 
WINDS OF 60 MPH OR HIGHER CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM ALONG
WITH DEADLY LIGHTNING. MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING SUCH AS YOUR
HOME AND REMAIN THERE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
 
BRUCE
 
NNNN

The office that day

Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXBuffalo67 min
Aug 13, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXTrempealeau56 min
Aug 13, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXClark68 min
Aug 13, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXJackson, Trempealeau62 min
Aug 13, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXBuffalo56 min
Aug 13, 10:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningARXBuffalo, Trempealeau5 hr
Aug 13, 11:30 PM CDTTornado WarningARXLa Crosse45 min
Aug 13, 11:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningARXJackson, Trempealeau6 hr
Aug 14, 12:02 AM CDTTornado WarningARXMonroe43 min
Aug 14, 12:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXLa Crosse53 min
Aug 14, 12:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXMonroe58 min

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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.