Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1997, 3:45 PM CDT for Juneau County, Monroe County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 60 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
- Jun 5, 1997, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1997, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Juneau County, WI, Monroe County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:18 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Ridgeville, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1229 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 052045 RRA
SVRLSE
WIC057-081-052145-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
345 PM CDT THU JUN 5 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
MONROE COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
JUNEAU COUNTY - CENTRAL WISCONSIN
* UNTIL 445 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
TOMAH
SPARTA
CAMP DOUGLAS
MATHER
* AT 340 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS AND 40 MILES
NORTHEAST OF LA CROSSE NEAR WARRENS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING
SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
* THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR TOMAH AROUND 355 PM.
THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS IS LARGE HAIL. DO NOT GO OUTDOORS.
NELSON/RIECKThe office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Jackson | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Trempealeau | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Jackson, Trempealeau | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | La Crosse | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Jackson | 30 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.