Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2000, 4:56 PM CDT for Trempealeau 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
- Jun 10, 2000, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Trempealeau County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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 10, 5:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Eleva, 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 10, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 893 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 368 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 431 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 9.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
376 WUUS53 KARX 102157 SVRLSE WIC121-102300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 456 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TREMPEALEAU COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 456 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR MONDOVI...TO NEAR MONTANA...TO BUFFALO. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR ARCADIA...INDEPENDENCE AND CHIMNEY ROCK AT 515 PM CDT NEAR WHITEHALL AT 520 PM CDT NEAR PLEASANTVILLE AT 525 PM CDT NEAR BLAIR AND PIGEON FALLS AT 530 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. NELSON LAT...LON 4458 9154 4404 9159 4410 9115 4460 9117
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 62 min |
| Jun 10, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Jackson | 60 min |
| Jun 10, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Jackson | 58 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.