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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2000, 5:37 PM CDT for Grant County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 38 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
- Jun 1, 2000, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Grant County, WI
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 5:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Dickeyville, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 824 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1154 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KARX 012240 SVRLSE WIC043-012315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 537 PM CDT THU JUN 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 537 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF POTOSI...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF EPWORTH. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR DICKEYVILLE AND TENNYSON AT 545 PM CDT NEAR ELLENBORO AT 550 PM CDT NEAR PLATTEVILLE AT 555 PM CDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. RIECK LAT...LON 4264 9092 4248 9081 4270 9042 4287 9059
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Grant | 56 min |
| May 31, 9:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Grant | 4 hr |
| May 31, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Grant | 64 min |
| May 31, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Crawford, Vernon | 65 min |
| May 31, 11:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Vernon | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Richland | 69 min |
| Jun 1, 12:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Crawford, Richland | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Grant | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 2:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Vernon | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 6:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Crawford, Richland, Vernon | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 10:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Crawford, Richland, Vernon | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Trempealeau | 60 min |
| Jun 1, 2:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Jackson, Trempealeau | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Monroe | 35 min |
| Jun 1, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Juneau | 55 min |
| Jun 1, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Monroe | 27 min |
| Jun 1, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Adams | 56 min |
| Jun 1, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Richland, Vernon | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Juneau | 60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.