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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS La Crosse, WI

March 30, 2005La Crosse County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2005, 3:26 PM CST for La Crosse County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2005, 3:26 PM CST (21:26 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2005, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County La Crosse County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 30, 2:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 252 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1379 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 198 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.

000 
WUUS53 KARX 302126
SVRARX
WIC063-302200-
/O.NEW.KARX.SV.W.0013.050330T2126Z-050330T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
326 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LA CROSSE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 400 PM CST

* AT 326 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS
  EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES WEST OF LA CRESCENT TO 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  VIROQUA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  BARRE MILLS AND ONALASKA AROUND 335 PM CST...
  HOLMEN AND BANGOR AROUND 340 PM CST...
  LAKE NESHONOC AND COUNTY ROADS M AND S AROUND 345 PM CST...
  MINDORO AND STEVENSTOWN AROUND 350 PM CST...
  BURR OAK AROUND 355 PM CST...

THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS AROUND 60 MPH. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE
TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4388 9126 4377 9118 4376 9096 4404 9099
      4407 9114 4398 9136

$$

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KARX 302141
SVSARX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
341 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

WIC063-302200-
/O.CON.KARX.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050330T2200Z/
LA CROSSE WI-
341 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CST
FOR LA CROSSE COUNTY...

AT 341 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AROUND 60 MPH AND UP 
TO PENNY SIZE HAIL EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA CRESCENT 
TO 11 MILES EAST OF LA CROSSE. THE SEVERE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH 
AT 40 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...HOLMEN AND NEW AMSTERDAM 
AROUND 345 PM CST...BANGOR AND COUNTY ROADS M AND W AROUND 350 PM 
CST...MINDORO AND STEVENSTOWN AROUND 355 PM CST...

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR
NO ADVANCED WARNING.

TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

LAT...LON 4388 9126 4377 9118 4376 9096 4404 9099
      4407 9114 4398 9136

$$

RIECK

000 
WWUS53 KARX 302151
SVSARX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
349 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

WIC063-302200-
/O.CON.KARX.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050330T2200Z/
LA CROSSE WI-
349 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CST
FOR LA CROSSE COUNTY...

AT 349 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AROUND 60 MPH AND PENNY
SIZE HAIL EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES EAST OF WINONA TO 9 MILES WEST OF
SPARTA. THE SEVERE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

AN OFF DUTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE REPORTED PENNY SIZE 
HAIL IN ONALASKA AT 334 PM. NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN FRENCH 
ISLAND AT 335 PM BY A SPOTTER. 45 MPH WIND GUSTS WERE REPORTED AT 
336 PM IN LA CROSSE BY A SPOTTER.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...BURR OAK AROUND 355 PM CST...

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR
NO ADVANCED WARNING.

TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

LAT...LON 4388 9126 4377 9118 4376 9096 4404 9099
      4407 9114 4398 9136

$$

RIECK

000 
WWUS53 KARX 302156
SVSARX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
356 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

WIC063-302206-
/O.EXP.KARX.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050330T2200Z/
LA CROSSE WI-
356 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LA CROSSE COUNTY HAS
EXPIRED...

THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. THERERFORE...THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LA CROSSE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR
NO ADVANCED WARNING.

LAT...LON 4388 9126 4377 9118 4376 9096 4404 9099
      4407 9114 4398 9136

$$

RIECK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 2:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Vernon	35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.