Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 133
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 29, 1998, 2:45 PM CST for Houston County, Winona County, Minnesota; 38 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1998, 2:45 PM CST (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1998, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties
Houston County, MN, Winona County, MN, Adams County, WI, Brown County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Columbia County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Portage County, WI, Richland County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vernon County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI, Wood County, WI
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Winona | 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, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Polk, Saint Croix | 56 min |
| Mar 29, 4:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 4:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 41 min |
| Mar 29, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Barron, Chippewa, Rusk | 62 min |
| Mar 29, 4:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 60 min |
| Mar 29, 5:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pepin | 28 min |
| Mar 29, 5:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 14 min |
| Mar 29, 5:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dunn | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 5:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 39 min |
| Mar 29, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 65 min |
| Mar 29, 5:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin, Pierce | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 6:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 29 min |
| Mar 29, 6:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Eau Claire | 53 min |
| Mar 29, 7:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark, Taylor | 64 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Dakota and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 29, 11:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Buffalo, Calumet, Chippewa, Clark and 33 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Wisconsin, 1998Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 1998Every tornado watch 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.