Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2002, 9:53 PM CDT for Clark County, Taylor County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 67 min. 5 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
- Jun 25, 2002, 9:53 PM CDT (02:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2002, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clark County, WI, Taylor County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 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 25, 10:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | Withee, WI | |
| Jun 25, 10:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Medford, WI | |
| Jun 25, 10:12 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | Owen, WI | |
| Jun 25, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Abbotsford, WI | |
| Jun 25, 10:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Abbotsford, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 25, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 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
- 1651 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KARX 260253 SVRLSE WIC019-119-260400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 953 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TAYLOR COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN CLARK COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 953 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF THORP...OR ABOUT 22 MILES EAST OF CHIPPEWA FALLS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR THORP AT 1000 PM CDT... NEAR OWEN AT 1015 PM CDT... NEAR MEDFORD AT 1020 PM CDT... NEAR LOYAL...AND DORCHESTER AT 1025 PM CDT... NEAR ABBOTSFORD AT 1030 PM CDT... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND 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. LAT...LON 4520 9097 4487 9117 4446 9036 4527 9022 BOYNE
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 66 min |
| Jun 25, 11:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 3 hr |
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.