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Ice Storm Warning 1, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this ice storm warning at Dec 27, 2008, 10:22 AM CST for 4 counties in Iowa. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 27, 2008, 10:22 AM CST (16:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 27, 2008, 2:06 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
Counties Allamakee County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this ice storm 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 ice storm warning went out at Dec 27, 3:15 AM CST, 7 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 27, 3:15 AM CST, 7 hours 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 3:51 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ARX | Adams, Buffalo, Clark, Crawford, Grant, Jackson and 7 more | 23 hr |
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Ice Storm Warnings in Iowa, 2008Every ice storm warning in 2008
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.