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Flood Watch 2, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flood watch at Sep 22, 2010, 3:15 AM CDT for 7 counties in Wisconsin; 7 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Sep 22, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 32 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 2010, 3:15 AM CDT (08:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 22, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2010, 3:26 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Dodge County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Houston County, MN, Mower County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Winona County, MN, Buffalo County, WI, Clark County, WI, Jackson County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:14 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 nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1182 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Sep 21, 3:20 PM CDT, 11 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 3:20 PM CDT, 11 hours 55 minutes before
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.