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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS La Crosse, WI

September 10, 1996Taylor County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1996, 5:20 PM CDT for Taylor County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 55 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
Sep 10, 1996, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired
Sep 10, 1996, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS La Crosse, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Taylor County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 206 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 12:00Z on 1996-09-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1996-09-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1063 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 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 102220
SVRLSE
WIC119-102315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
520 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...TAYLOR COUNTY
 
AT 519 PM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 45 MILES
NORTHEAST OF EAU CLAIRE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35
MPH AND CONTAINED HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE AND WINDS OVER 60 MPH.
 
THE THUNDERSTORM WILL APPROACH THE COMMUNITIES OF
GILMAN...BELLINGER...JUMP RIVER...AND HANNIBAL BETWEEN 530 AND
600 PM.
 
 
RACY
 
 
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.