Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 2000, 5:56 PM CDT for Clark County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 2000, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Clark County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 6:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Greenwood, WI |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1331 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KARX 112259 SVRLSE WIC019-120000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 556 PM CDT MON SEP 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS EXTENDED THE * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLARK COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 556 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDFORD TO 11 MILES WEST OF NEILLSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR NEILLSVILLE AT 615 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN IOWA AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND SOMETIMES DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. RIECK LAT...LON 4502 9061 4459 9090 4449 9048 4494 9032
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo, Trempealeau | 77 min |
| Sep 10, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark, Taylor | 73 min |
| Sep 10, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo, Trempealeau | 57 min |
| Sep 10, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark, Taylor | 64 min |
| Sep 11, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 53 min |
| Sep 11, 2:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Clark, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 5:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Richland, Vernon | 24 min |
| Sep 11, 6:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Richland | 34 min |
| Sep 11, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Taylor | 63 min |
| Sep 11, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Grant | 61 min |
| Sep 11, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 63 min |
| Sep 11, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo, Trempealeau | 59 min |
| Sep 11, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Grant | 32 min |
| Sep 11, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Grant | 49 min |
| Sep 11, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Jackson | 74 min |
| Sep 11, 6:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Grant | 4 hr |
| Sep 11, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Trempealeau | 28 min |
| Sep 11, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | La Crosse, Monroe | 58 min |
| Sep 11, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Monroe | 55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.