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Tornado Warning 29, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 24, 1998Winona County, Minnesota; La Crosse County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1998, 10:26 PM CDT for Winona County, Minnesota; La Crosse County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 64 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 24, 1998, 10:26 PM CDT (03:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1998, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Winona County, MN, La Crosse County, WI

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 24, 10:43 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Holmen, 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 24, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 3921 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1033 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 5.8

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The text

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

660 
WFUS1 KLSE 250335 RRA
TORLSE
MNC169-WIC063-250430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED COUNTY CODES
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
1026 PM CDT WED JUN 24 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LA CROSSE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
  SOUTHEASTERN WINONA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1023 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR LA CROSSE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ONALASKA AT 1030 PM
  WEST SALEM BY 1040 PM

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

KING/DB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Houston	57 min
Jun 24, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Fillmore	58 min
Jun 24, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Olmsted	64 min
Jun 24, 9:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Olmsted	63 min
Jun 24, 9:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Fillmore, Houston	65 min
Jun 24, 9:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Wabasha	63 min
Jun 24, 9:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Winona	65 min
Jun 24, 10:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Wabasha, Winona	60 min
Jun 25, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Dodge, Olmsted	55 min
Jun 25, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Wabasha	55 min
Jun 24, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Vernon	60 min
Jun 24, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Monroe	65 min
Jun 24, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Jackson	61 min
Jun 24, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	La Crosse	65 min
Jun 24, 10:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Buffalo	60 min
Jun 24, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Clark	59 min
Jun 24, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Jackson	59 min
Jun 24, 10:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Trempealeau	59 min
Jun 24, 11:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Buffalo	58 min
Jun 24, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Monroe	64 min
Jun 24, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Jackson	64 min
Jun 25, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Adams, Juneau	60 min
Jun 25, 1:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Buffalo	46 min
Jun 25, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Trempealeau	45 min
Jun 25, 1:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Jackson	66 min
Jun 25, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Vernon	63 min
Jun 25, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Crawford, Grant	57 min
Jun 25, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Grant	31 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 1998 Tornado Warnings in Wisconsin, 1998 Every tornado warning in 1998 Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.