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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 13, 2000Buffalo County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 4:13 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 77 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: Jun 13, 2000, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 77 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Buffalo County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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 nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 290 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 591 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KARX 132115 COR
SVRLSE
MNC169-WIC011-023-063-121-123-132230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTED SPEED AND DIRECTION.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
413 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BUFFALO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
  TREMPEALEAU COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
  WINONA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
  VERNON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN
  LA CROSSE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 413 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORNADO LIKE WIND DAMAGE ALONG A
  LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINONA TO 10 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF CALEDONIA TO 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF LANSING TO 11 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF PRAIRIE DU CHIEN. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45
  MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE...
  NEAR WYATTVILLE AND HART AT 415 PM CDT
  NEAR DE SOTO AND RIDGEWAY AT 430 PM CDT
  NEAR GENOA AND RED MOUND AT 435 PM CDT
  NEAR LYNXVILLE AND FERRYVILLE AT 440 PM CDT
  NEAR FRENCH ISLAND AND 
DAKOTA AT 445 PM CDT

WIND GUSTS FROM THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADO-LIKE DAMAGE. SEEK
SHELTER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

KRC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	La Crosse, Trempealeau, Vernon	77 min
Jun 13, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Crawford	77 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.