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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 12, 1996Taylor County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 8:51 PM CDT for Taylor County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 1996, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
54 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, 1.9 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 1996-06-13Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 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
1672 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 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 130153
SVRLSE
WIC119-130245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
851 PM CDT WED JUN 12 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...TAYLOR COUNTY
 
AT 850 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF
WAUSAU...OR JUST WEST OF WESTBORO. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20
MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE NEAR CHELSEA AROUND 920 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

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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.