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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS La Crosse, WI

August 25, 1996Jackson County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1996, 7:02 PM CDT for Jackson County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 58 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 25, 1996, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 1996, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
58 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 00:05 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1996-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 863 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1996-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 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
863 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1384 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLSE 260004
SVRLSE
WIC053-260100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
702 PM CDT SUN AUG 25 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY
 
AT 705 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AROUND OSSEO...ABOUT
20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EAU CLAIRE..MOVING SOUTHEAST NEAR 15 MPH. THIS
STORM HAS A HISTORY OF UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL....AND WILL APPROACH
THE COMMUNITIES OF LEVIS...PRICE...AND NORTHFIELD BY 715 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.
 
 
RIECK/THOMPSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXBuffalo, Trempealeau44 min
Aug 25, 9:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXTrempealeau53 min
Aug 25, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXBuffalo60 min
Aug 25, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXClark59 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.