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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1996, 1:55 AM CDT for Jackson County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 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
- Aug 7, 1996, 1:55 AM CDT (06:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1996, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3575 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 778 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLSE 070655 SVRLSE MNC055-WIC053-063-070730- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 155 AM CDT WED AUG 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA ...HOUSTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...JACKSON COUNTY...LA CROSSE COUNTY A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 50 MILES NORTH OF LA CROSSE TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LA CROSSE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT BLACK RIVER FALLS...LA CROSSE WI AND CALADONIA MN BETWEEN 2 AND 215 AM CDT. WINDS OF 60 MPH OR HIGHER CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM ALONG WITH DEADLY LIGHTNING. MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING SUCH AS YOUR HOME AND REMAIN THERE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo, Trempealeau | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark, Taylor | 50 min |
| Aug 7, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | La Crosse | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Crawford, Vernon | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Monroe | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Jackson, La Crosse | 16 min |
| Aug 7, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Grant | 53 min |
| Aug 7, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Adams, Juneau | 68 min |
| Aug 7, 2:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Richland | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.