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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS La Crosse, WI

July 23, 1999Taylor County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1999, 3:25 AM CDT for Taylor County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 50 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: Jul 23, 1999, 3:25 AM CDT (08:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 1999, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Taylor County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jul 23, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 1505 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 972 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS La Crosse, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 22, 3:15 PM CDT, 12 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 3:15 PM CDT, 12 hours 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 5:30 AM CDT, 21 hours 55 minutes before

IAC005-037-043-065-067-089-131-199-MNC039-045-055-099-109-157-169-
WIC001-011-019-023-043-053-057-063-081-103-119-121-123-230200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
530 AM CDT THU JUL 22 1999

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCAL HEAVY RAIN TODAY OVER NORTHEAST IOWA AND
SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN.

A WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS CONTINUES TO RESIDE OVER MUCH
OF THE REGION. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ONCE AGAIN
EFXPECTED ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON...BUT STORMS ARE NOT
EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY.

DEVOIR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 4:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Taylor	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1999 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.