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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS La Crosse, WI

May 10, 2001Grant County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2001, 6:56 PM CDT for Grant County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 49 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 2001, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS La Crosse, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Grant County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:59 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
May 10, 7:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55 EBloomington, WI
May 10, 7:10 PM CDTHail 0.75Cassville, WI
May 10, 7:30 PM CDTHail 0.75Potosi, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 10, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 12:00Z on 2001-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2001-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2104 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 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.

570 
WUUS53 KARX 102357
SVRLSE
WIC043-110045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
656 PM CDT THU MAY 10 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 656 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES WEST OF BLOOMINGTON...OR ABOUT 12
  MILES WEST OF LANCASTER...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR LANCASTER AT 705 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.

$$

BAUMGARDT

LAT...LON 4297 9099 4279 9101 4268 8983 4295 8980

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXBuffalo77 min
May 9, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXBuffalo30 min
May 9, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXTrempealeau45 min
May 10, 1:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXLa Crosse, Vernon55 min
May 10, 1:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXMonroe52 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.