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Tornado Warning 3, NWS La Crosse, WI

March 29, 1998Buffalo County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 1998, 5:16 PM CST for Buffalo County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 14 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, 5:16 PM CST (23:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 1998, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Buffalo County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 29, 2:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Mar 29, 2:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

348 
WFUS1 KLSE 292317 RRA
TORLSE
WIC011-292330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
516 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1998

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
    NORTHWESTERN BUFFALO COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 530 PM CST

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    MAXVILLE

* AT 515 PM LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 35 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF EAU CLAIRE...JUST SOUTH OF MAXVILLE. THE STORM WAS
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR MAXVILLE AT 517 PM.

IF YOU ARE NEAR THIS DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN
THE LOWEST FLOOR AND INNER MOST ROOM OF A BUILDING.

SHEA/NELSON

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 10:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Juneau	25 min
Mar 29, 10:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Adams	31 min
Mar 29, 2:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Taylor	47 min
Mar 29, 2:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Buffalo	57 min
Mar 29, 2:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	La Crosse, Trempealeau	34 min
Mar 29, 3:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Trempealeau	29 min
Mar 29, 3:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Jackson, Monroe	61 min
Mar 29, 4:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Buffalo	60 min

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.