Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2002, 5:25 PM CDT for Clark County, Taylor County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 65 min. 2 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
- Jul 21, 2002, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 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), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 5:39 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | Medford, WI | |
| Jul 21, 6:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Longwood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 2410 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1319 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
302 WUUS53 KARX 212225 SVRLSE WIC019-119-212330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 525 PM CDT SUN JUL 21 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 630 PM CDT * AT 525 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 7 MILES NORTH OF MEDFORD TO 23 MILES EAST OF CHIPPEWA FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR RIB LAKE AT 535 PM CDT... NEAR MEDFORD AT 540 PM CDT... NEAR OWEN AT 600 PM CDT... NEAR LOYAL...AND DORCHESTER AT 615 PM CDT... NEAR ABBOTSFORD AT 630 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 4537 9092 4462 9093 4462 9032 4538 9004 THOMPSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 45 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.