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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS La Crosse, WI

August 25, 2006Richland County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2006, 9:13 AM CDT for Richland County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 47 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: Aug 25, 2006, 9:13 AM CDT (14:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2006, 10:00 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Richland County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:16 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 685 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -230 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1278 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KARX 251414
SVRARX
WIC103-251500-
/O.NEW.KARX.SV.W.0148.060825T1413Z-060825T1500Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
913 AM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN...

* UNTIL 1000 AM CDT

* AT 911 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.
  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ASH RIDGE TO
  BUCK CREEK TO LOYD TO HIGHWAY 58 AND COUNTY K...OR ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF RICHLAND CENTER TO 6 MILES
  NORTH OF RICHLAND CENTER TO 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF RICHLAND CENTER
  TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF REEDSBURG...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15
  MPH. THIS WARNING EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
  FOR RICHLAND COUNTY.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  COUNTY ROADS D AND NN AND HIGHWAY 56 AND COUNTY M M AROUND 915
  AM...
  HIGHWAYS 80 AND 56 AND COUNTY ROADS A AND Z AROUND 925 AM...
  NEPTUNE AROUND 930 AM...
  KEYESVILLE AND ITHACA AROUND 935 AM...
  RICHLAND CENTER AROUND 940 AM...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4352 9067 4349 9046 4349 9028 4355 9022
      4337 9020 4327 9022 4328 9038 4335 9048

$$

RIECK

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KARX 251427
SVSARX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
927 AM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006

WIC103-251500-
/O.CON.KARX.SV.W.0148.000000T0000Z-060825T1500Z/
RICHLAND WI-
927 AM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CDT 
FOR RICHLAND COUNTY...

AT 925 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY
SIZE HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
ROCKBRIDGE TO HIGHWAYS 58 AND 154 TO 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF KEYESVILLE
TO 8 MILES EAST OF HIGHWAY 58 AND COUNTY K...OR ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTH OF RICHLAND CENTER TO 10 MILES EAST OF
RICHLAND CENTER TO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF REEDSBURG TO 8 MILES SOUTH
OF REEDSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  GERMANTOWN AND HIGHWAY 58 AND COUNTY K AROUND 935 AM...
  NEPTUNE AROUND 940 AM...
  ITHACA AROUND 955 AM...
  RICHLAND CENTER AND KEYESVILLE AROUND 1000 AM...

LAT...LON 4352 9067 4349 9046 4349 9028 4355 9022
      4337 9020 4327 9022 4328 9038 4335 9048

$$

RIECK

000 
WWUS53 KARX 251442
SVSARX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
942 AM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006

WIC103-251500-
/O.CON.KARX.SV.W.0148.000000T0000Z-060825T1500Z/
RICHLAND WI-
942 AM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CDT 
FOR RICHLAND COUNTY...

AT 933 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LOYD...OR 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF RICHLAND
CENTER...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

LAT...LON 4352 9067 4349 9046 4349 9028 4355 9022
      4337 9020 4327 9022 4328 9038 4335 9048

$$

RABERDING

000 
WWUS53 KARX 251453
SVSARX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
953 AM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006

WIC103-251503-
/O.EXP.KARX.SV.W.0148.000000T0000Z-060825T1500Z/
RICHLAND WI-
953 AM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RICHLAND COUNTY EXPIRES AT 
1000 AM CDT...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THIS WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.

LAT...LON 4352 9067 4349 9046 4349 9028 4355 9022
      4337 9020 4327 9022 4328 9038 4335 9048

$$

RABERDING

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS La Crosse, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 25, 4:02 AM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 4:02 AM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
402 AM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006

.SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT

FORECAST FOCUS INITIALLY IS ON LINGERING CONVECTIVE THREAT THIS
MORNING AND CHANCE FOR REDEVELOPMENT TODAY. ATTENTION THEN TURNS
SKY CONDITION AND TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE WEEKEND.

08Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS LOW PRESSURE CENTERED ALONG THE MN/IA
BORDER REGION NEAR THE KSPW-KEST-KMJQ AREA.  LOCATION OF THE ACTUAL
WARM FRONT REACHING EAST-SOUTHEAST FROM THE LOW CENTER IS MUDDLED
WITH ALL THE CONVECTION OVER THE AREA...BUT RUNS DOWN FROM NORTH
CENTRAL IA TO EAST CENTRAL IA.  COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER
LEVEL SHORT WAVE TROUGH MOVING ACROSS MN RUNS FROM NORTHWEST WI
DOWN THROUGH EASTERN MN TO THE LOW CENTER...THEN SOUTHWEST THROUGH
WESTERN IA. MAIN JET STREAK WITH THE AFOREMENTIONED SHORT WAVE
ALREADY PUNCHING THROUGH MN INTO NORTHERN WI...WITH MOST OF THE
CONVECTION OVER WESTERN WI/NORTHEAST IA/EXTREME SOUTHEAST MN. LOW
LEVEL JET CONTINUES TO FEED INTO THE BOUNDARY...FUELING ELEVATED
CONVECTION. MAIN THREAT AT THIS TIME IS THE HEAVY RAIN...WITH WATER
VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWING THE TROPICAL CONNECTION FROM THE SOUTHWEST
MONSOON...AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS INDICATING 1-2 INCHES PER HOUR.

00Z 25AUG06 MODEL SOLUTIONS IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT THROUGH 48
HOURS...AFTER WHICH THEY BEGIN TO DIFFER ON HOW FAST THE HIGH
PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE REGION. NEITHER IS PARTICULARLY GOOD WITH
THE ONGOING ACTIVITY. BLENDING THE NAM/GFS BEYOND 48 HOURS YIELDS
A SOLUTION THAT APPEARS REASONABLE...SO WENT THAT ROUTE TONIGHT.
ALL-IN-ALL...NOT MUCH CHANGE MADE FROM THE PREVIOUS FORECAST.

MAIN SHORT WAVE TROUGH AND JET STREAK CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST OF THE
AREA THIS MORNING.  SHEARED VORTICITY AND LINGERING LOW LEVEL JET
LOOK TO MAINTAIN CONVECTION OVER NORTHEAST IA INTO THE MORNING
HOURS. AFTER THAT...THE JET WEAKENS AND THE BEST LIFT MOVES ON. THUS
FEEL THE CONVECTION WILL WANE SHORTLY AFTER SUNRISE.

THE CONVECTIVE FOCUS HAS SHIFTED SOUTH OF WHERE THE FLASH FLOOD
WATCH WAS IN EFFECT...SO WILL GO AHEAD AND TERMINATE THAT WITH THIS
FORECAST PACKAGE. SEVERE POTENTIAL IS ALSO WANING...SO WILL TRIM A
GOOD DEAL OF THE WATCH AT ISSUANCE TIME AS WELL.

COLD FRONT LOOKS TO MOVE THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA TODAY. DEPENDING
ON THE TIMING OF THIS...WE COULD SEE SOME REDEVELOPMENT ALONG THE
BOUNDARY LATER TODAY. STILL A FEED OF WARM AND RELATIVELY MOIST AIR
NORTHWARD AHEAD OF THE BOUNDARY...BUT IT IS ELEVATED...AND THERE IS
ALSO A NARROW WEDGE OF LOWER DEWPOINT AIR FEEDING IN AS WELL. WILL
GO AHEAD AND LEAVE POPS IN FOR THIS CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL. WILL ALSO
LINGER THE CHANCE INTO THE EVENING HOURS.  THE FRONT AND ANY RAIN
THREAT SHOULD BE EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA BY MIDNIGHT. THERE IS A
LOT OF POST-FRONTAL STRATUS ACROSS MN...AND EXPECT THIS TO ADVECT
INTO THE AREA AS WELL. IN THE AREA BETWEEN WHERE THE CONVECTION
CLEARS...AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WE COULD SEE SOME WARMING.  THUS PARTS
OF NORTHEAST IA AND SOUTHWEST WI COULD MOVE INTO THE 80S. BUT OTHER
AREA WILL REMAIN IN THE 70S.

LOWS TONIGHT MAY HINGE ON HOW MUCH OF THIS LOW STRATUS LINGERS
TONIGHT. AREAS TO THE EAST AND SOUTH COULD STAY CLOUDY LONGER...AND
THUS LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S MAY STILL BE OK.  ELSEWHERE LOWS SHOULD
DIP INTO THE 50S.

HIGH PRESSURE THEN BUILDS IN TO DOMINATE THE WEATHER FOR THE
WEEKEND. TEMPERATURES SHOULD WARM SLIGHTLY EACH DAY...WITH HIGHS IN
THE UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S.

.LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

WITH THE ACTIVE WEATHER THIS PAST EVENING...DID NOT HAVE A GREAT
DEAL OF TIME TO DIG INTO THE MEDIUM RANGE PERIOD. MODELS STILL
INDICATE THAT THERE MAY BE AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH EJECTING OUT OF
THE ROCKIES INTO THE CENTRAL PART OF THE COUNTRY ON MONDAY.
CURRENTLY THE FORECAST IS DRY FOR THIS PERIOD...AND THIS WILL HAVE
TO BE LOOKED AT. BEST CHANCE FOR ANY PRECIPITATION WITH THIS MAY
REMAIN TO THE SOUTH...BUT WILL BE CLOSE.  OTHERWISE...THE LONG TERM
PERIOD LOOKS REASONABLE AND NO CHANGES MADE.

&&

.ARX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WI...NONE.
MN...NONE.
IA...NONE.

&&

MW

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 5:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
500 AM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006

IAZ011-030-MNZ079-088-096-WIZ017-029-032>034-041>044-053>055-061-
261000-
ADAMS-ALLAMAKEE-BUFFALO-CLARK-CLAYTON-CRAWFORD-GRANT-HOUSTON-JACKSON-
JUNEAU-LA CROSSE-MONROE-RICHLAND-TAYLOR-TREMPEALEAU-VERNON-WABASHA-
WINONA-
500 AM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST
MINNESOTA...NORTHEAST IOWA...AND SOUTHWEST INTO CENTRAL WISCONSIN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED ACROSS THE AREA
THIS MORNING. LIMITED INSTABILITY WILL KEEP THESE STORMS BELOW
SEVERE LIMITS.

AN ADVANCING COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL SPARK MORE
THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON...GENERALLY EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI
RIVER. INSTABILITY WILL BE ON THE INCREASE...WHICH WILL LEND TO
THE THREAT FOR SOME SEVERE WEATHER. WIND PROFILES WILL ALSO SUPPORT
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT AND THIS POTENTIAL. LOCALLY...THE MORE
FAVORABLE AREAS FOR THESE CHANCES WILL BE ALONG AND EAST OF A
TOMAH WISCONSIN TO ELKADER IOWA LINE...AND FROM 2 TO 7 PM.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WIDESPREAD SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED FOR TODAY...
HOWEVER SOME LOCAL GROUPS MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON IF SEVERE
WEATHER DEVELOPS.

.EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATION...

NO CALL IS SCHEDULED.

IAZ008>010-018-019-029-MNZ086-087-094-095-261000-
CHICKASAW-DODGE-FAYETTE-FILLMORE-FLOYD-HOWARD-MITCHELL-MOWER-OLMSTED-
WINNESHIEK-
500 AM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST
MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST IOWA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER ACROSS THE AREA THIS
MORNING...WITH THIS ACTIVITY THEN SHIFTING TO THE EAST FOR THE
AFTERNOON HOURS. WITH LIMITED INSTABILITY AND THE MORE FAVORABLE
WIND PROFILES EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER...SEVERE WEATHER
IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.

.EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATION...

NO CALL IS SCHEDULED.

RIECK

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 25, 8:08 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
808 AM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0755 AM     HAIL             COON VALLEY             43.70N 91.01W
08/25/2006  E0.75 INCH       VERNON             WI   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

04

Local storm report, Aug 25, 8:43 AM CDT, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
843 AM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0830 AM     HAIL             4 NE VIROQUA            43.60N 90.83W
08/25/2006  E1.00 INCH       VERNON             WI   PUBLIC

            DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL COVERING THE LAWN.

&&

04

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 24, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Jackson	67 min
Aug 24, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Buffalo	46 min
Aug 25, 7:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Vernon	30 min
Aug 25, 8:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Monroe	28 min
Aug 25, 8:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Vernon	30 min
Aug 25, 8:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Richland	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.