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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 15, 2000Crawford County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2000, 9:37 PM CDT for Crawford 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 15, 2000, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS La Crosse, WI
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Crawford County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:39 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 15, 9:43 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55 ELynxville, 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 nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2000-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2000-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1949 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
206 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.

314 
WUUS53 KARX 160237
SVRLSE
WIC023-160315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
937 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 937 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS 5 MILES WEST OF
  EASTMAN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF PRAIRIE DU CHIEN...MOVING EAST
  AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR SENECA AT 945 PM CDT
  NEAR STEUBEN...BELL CENTER AT 950 PM CDT
  NEAR PLUGTOWN AT 955 PM CDT
  NEAR ROLLING GROUND AT 1000 PM CDT

DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ARE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.

RRS

LAT...LON 4326 9114 4307 9119 4312 9078 4335 9069

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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.