Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 32, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1998, 11:02 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 58 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
- Jun 24, 1998, 11:02 PM CDT (04:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1998, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buffalo County, WI
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, 4.0 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
805 WFUS1 KLSE 250403 RRA TORLSE WIC011-250500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1102 PM CDT WED JUN 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BUFFALO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1200 AM CDT * AT 1101 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR COCHRANE OR 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA CROSSE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HEROLD BY 1115 PM CREAM BY 1120 PM WAUMANDEE BY 1130 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 | Vernon | 57 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, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | La Crosse | 64 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, 11:06 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
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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.