Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1995, 4:47 PM CDT for Vernon County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1995, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vernon County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 1880 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KLSE 072147 RRA SVRLSE WIC123-072245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 447 PM CDT WED JUN 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN ...VERNON COUNTY AT 445 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR STODDARD IN NORTHWEST VERNON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF LA CROSSE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF GENOA...VIROQUA AND WESTBY. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. HAIL 3/4 OF AN INCH OR LARGER IN DIAMETER AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. NNNN LUSS
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, Jun 7, 1:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
WIZ032>034-041-042-053-054-072130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 140 PM CDT WED JUN 7 1995 ...STRONG COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE LA CROSSE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THE FRONT WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE LA CROSSE AREA...SO PERSONS PLANNING TO BE OUTDOORS WILL WANT TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY. THE FRONT MARKS THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN MUCH COOLER AIR TO OUR NORTH AND WARM AND HUMID AIR OVER LA CROSSE AND POINTS EAST AND SOUTH. AS OF 1 PM...THE FRONT WAS ABOUT HALFWAY BETWEEN EAU CLAIRE AND LA CROSSE WITH EAU CLAIRE REPORTING A TEMPERATURE OF 62...WHILE LA CROSSE HAD 82. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 1:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
WIZ032>034-041-042-053-054-072130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 140 PM CDT WED JUN 7 1995 ...STRONG COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE LA CROSSE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THE FRONT WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE LA CROSSE AREA...SO PERSONS PLANNING TO BE OUTDOORS WILL WANT TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY. THE FRONT MARKS THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN MUCH COOLER AIR TO OUR NORTH AND WARM AND HUMID AIR OVER LA CROSSE AND POINTS EAST AND SOUTH. AS OF 1 PM...THE FRONT WAS ABOUT HALFWAY BETWEEN EAU CLAIRE AND LA CROSSE WITH EAU CLAIRE REPORTING A TEMPERATURE OF 62...WHILE LA CROSSE HAD 82. THOMPSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Crawford | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.