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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS La Crosse, WI

August 7, 1996Adams County, Juneau County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1996, 2:52 AM CDT for Adams County, Juneau County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 68 min. 3 reports 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, 2:52 AM CDT (07:52 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 1996, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Adams County, WI, Juneau County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:52 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Aug 7, 3:13 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Necedah, WI
Aug 7, 3:24 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Cottonville, WI
Aug 7, 3:25 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Big Flats, WI

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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 158 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLSE 070753 RRA
SVRLSE
WIC001-057-070900-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
252 AM CDT WED AUG 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...ADAMS COUNTY...JUNEAU COUNTY
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
WISCONSIN RAPIDS TO 40 MILES EAST OF LA CROSSE.
 
THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT
THE TOWNS OF NECEDAH...NEW LISBON...MAUSTON AND UNION CENTER BY 310 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, 1:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Jackson	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, 2:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Richland	48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.