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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS La Crosse, WI

September 30, 2002Taylor County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 30, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT for Taylor County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 45 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Sep 30, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired: Sep 30, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Taylor County, WI

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Sep 30, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Chelsea, WI
Sep 30, 6:50 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Chelsea, WI
Sep 30, 6:58 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Westboro, 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
Sep 30, 3:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 460 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -228 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1152 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 321 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 377 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.8

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The text

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

903 
WUUS53 KARX 302330
SVRLSE
WIC119-010015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
630 PM CDT MON SEP 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TAYLOR COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 605 PM SPOTTERS REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL NEAR PERKINSTOWN

* AT 628 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM      
  PRODUCING LARGE HAIL 7 MILES WEST OF WESTBORO...OR ABOUT 14        
  MILES NORTH OF MEDFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR WESTBORO AT 640 PM CDT...
  NEAR RIB LAKE AT 645 PM CDT...

THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF THE PREVIOUS WARNING FOR TAYLOR COUNTY. A 
TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR 
SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4529 9059 4521 9049 4521 9006 4538 9014
          4538 9068

SAW

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 29, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Buffalo	32 min
Sep 29, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Clark, Jackson	58 min
Sep 30, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Buffalo	27 min
Sep 30, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Taylor	38 min
Sep 30, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Taylor	37 min
Sep 30, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Trempealeau	32 min
Sep 30, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Jackson	26 min
Sep 30, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Jackson	62 min
Sep 30, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Taylor	30 min
Sep 30, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Clark	52 min
Sep 30, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Clark
Sep 30, 6:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ARX	Clark	48 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.