Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1995, 12:37 AM CDT for La Crosse County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 1995, 12:37 AM CDT (05:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 1995, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County La Crosse County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 1246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 622 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLSE 140537 RRA SVRLSE WIC063-140630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1237 AM CDT MON AUG 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...LA CROSSE COUNTY AT 1236 AM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE CITY OF LA CROSSE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH...AND WILL BE AFFECTING LA CROSSE...WEST SALEM...AND ST JOSEPH THROUGH 115 AM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING PREFERABLY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND EXPECT DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. 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
Local storm report, Aug 13, 9:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
955 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0815 PM LUBLIN WI TREES DOWN
8/13/95 TAYLOR
0815 PM THORP WI SHED BLOWN OVER
8/13/95 CLARK POWER OUTAGES
0820 PM OSSEO WI TREES DOWN
8/13/95 TREMPEALEAU POWER OUTAGES
0830 PM WHITEHALL WI TREES DOWN
8/13/95 TREMPEALEAU
0850 PM BLAIR WI TREES DOWN
8/13/95 TREMPEALEAU SHED BLOWN OVER
BRUCEThe office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 67 min |
| Aug 13, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Trempealeau | 56 min |
| Aug 13, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Taylor | 62 min |
| Aug 13, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 68 min |
| Aug 13, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Jackson, Trempealeau | 62 min |
| Aug 13, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 56 min |
| Aug 13, 10:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Buffalo, Trempealeau | 5 hr |
| Aug 13, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | La Crosse | 45 min |
| Aug 13, 11:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Jackson, Trempealeau | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 12:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Monroe | 43 min |
| Aug 14, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Monroe | 58 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.