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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS La Crosse, WI

August 7, 1996Winneshiek County, Iowa

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1996, 1:45 AM CDT for Winneshiek County, Iowa. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 7, 1996, 1:45 AM CDT (06:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 1996, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS La Crosse, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Winneshiek County, IA

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 7, 1:55 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Decorah, IA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 216 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 1996-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4709 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 1996-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 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
4709 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.3

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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
Aug 7, 1:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXBuffalo, Trempealeau34 min
Aug 7, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXClark, Taylor50 min
Aug 7, 1:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXLa Crosse35 min
Aug 7, 1:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXJackson35 min
Aug 7, 2:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXCrawford, Vernon45 min
Aug 7, 2:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXMonroe45 min
Aug 7, 2:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXJackson, La Crosse16 min
Aug 7, 2:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXGrant53 min
Aug 7, 2:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXAdams, Juneau68 min
Aug 7, 2:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXRichland48 min
Aug 7, 12:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXDodge60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.