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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 24, 1995La Crosse County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1995, 4:18 PM CDT for La Crosse County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1995, 4:18 PM CDT (21:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS La Crosse, WI
Area
Whole counties

County La Crosse County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 249 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2246 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 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 
WUUS1 KLSE 242118 RRA
SVRLSE
WIC063-242145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
418 PM CDT SAT JUN 24 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...SOUTHERN LA CROSSE COUNTY
 
AT 418 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF THE
CITY OF LA CROSSE. THE STORM WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY WEST AT 10 MPH
AND WILL BE NEAR THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BY 425 PM.
 
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.
 
THOMPSON
 
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, Jun 24, 11:42 AM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
1136 AM CDT SAT JUN 24

THIS IS A TEST....REPEATING...THIS IS ONLY A TEST.

RKA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXClark46 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.