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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS La Crosse, WI

March 29, 1998Taylor County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1998, 6:05 PM CST 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
Mar 29, 1998, 6:05 PM CST (00:05 UTC)
Expired
Mar 29, 1998, 7:00 PM CST
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 00:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 29, 3:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 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 00:00Z on 1998-03-30Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1998-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 602 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
602 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
864 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
9.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLSE 300007
SVRLSE
WIC119-300100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
605 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1998

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
    TAYLOR COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 700 PM CST

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    GILMAN
    DONALD
    HANNIBAL

* AT 604 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF EAU CLAIRE...NEAR
  CADOTTj. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR GILMAN AT 615 PM AND LUBLIN NEAR
  620 PM.

THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS IS LARGE HAIL. DO NOT GO OUTDOORS.

SHEA/NELSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 6:31 PM CSTTornado WarningARXBuffalo29 min
Mar 29, 7:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXClark, Taylor64 min
Mar 30, 2:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXGrant60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.