Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2001, 9:08 PM CDT for Jackson County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 67 min. 2 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
- Jun 17, 2001, 9:08 PM CDT (02:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2001, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 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 17, 9:10 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Merrillan, WI | |
| Jun 17, 9:10 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Black River Falls, 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KARX 180209 SVRLSE WIC053-180315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 908 PM CDT SUN JUN 17 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 908 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLACK RIVER FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. AT 904 PM...THIS THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL JUST OF BLACK RIVER FALLS ON COUNTY ROAD A. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR HATFIELD AT 915 PM CDT... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WdIND 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. $$ BOYNE &
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 58 min |
| Jun 17, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 53 min |
| Jun 17, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Trempealeau | 49 min |
| Jun 17, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Adams, Juneau | 60 min |
| Jun 17, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 60 min |
| Jun 17, 9:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Monroe | 65 min |
| Jun 17, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Trempealeau | 53 min |
| Jun 17, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | La Crosse | 58 min |
| Jun 17, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Juneau | 58 min |
| Jun 17, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Monroe | 61 min |
| Jun 17, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Adams | 32 min |
| Jun 17, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Vernon | 59 min |
| Jun 18, 1:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Vernon | 56 min |
| Jun 18, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Richland | 55 min |
| Jun 18, 4:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Grant | 55 min |
| Jun 18, 6:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | La Crosse | 57 min |
| Jun 18, 6:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Trempealeau | 54 min |
| Jun 18, 6:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Trempealeau | 20 min |
| Jun 18, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 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.