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Tornado Watch 133

March 29, 1998Houston County, Winona County, Minnesota; 38 counties in Wisconsin

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 2:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXWinona34 min
Mar 29, 3:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXTrempealeau29 min
Mar 29, 3:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXJackson, Monroe61 min
Mar 29, 3:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXPolk, Saint Croix56 min
Mar 29, 4:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDunn46 min
Mar 29, 4:19 PM CSTTornado WarningMPXDunn41 min
Mar 29, 4:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBarron, Chippewa, Rusk62 min
Mar 29, 4:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXBuffalo60 min
Mar 29, 5:02 PM CSTTornado WarningMPXPepin28 min
Mar 29, 5:16 PM CSTTornado WarningARXBuffalo14 min
Mar 29, 5:28 PM CSTTornado WarningMPXDunn47 min
Mar 29, 5:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXEau Claire39 min
Mar 29, 5:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXChippewa65 min
Mar 29, 5:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDunn, Pepin, Pierce47 min
Mar 29, 6:31 PM CSTTornado WarningARXBuffalo29 min
Mar 29, 6:37 PM CSTTornado WarningMPXEau Claire53 min
Mar 29, 7:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXClark, Taylor64 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1998-03-29Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1998-03-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 2:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 21 more6 hr
Mar 29, 3:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnoka, Benton, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Dakota and 23 more5 hr
Mar 29, 11:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Buffalo, Calumet, Chippewa, Clark and 33 more6 hr

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.