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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 29, 1996Buffalo County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1996, 3:35 AM CDT for Buffalo County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 40 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 29, 1996, 3:35 AM CDT (08:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1996, 4:15 AM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS La Crosse, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Buffalo County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1996-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1193 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1996-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1193 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1806 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXBuffalo40 min
Jun 29, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXClark, Jackson65 min
Jun 29, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXMonroe63 min
Jun 29, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXVernon65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.