Alert archive / Wisconsin / High Wind Warnings in 2011
High Wind Warning 1, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this high wind warning at May 9, 2011, 12:43 PM CDT for Clark County, Taylor County, Wisconsin. It took effect at May 9, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 2 hr. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2011, 12:43 PM CDT (17:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 9, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 9, 2011, 3:27 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
Counties Clark County, WI, Taylor County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2:00 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | Neillsville, WI | TREES UPROOTED IN NEILLSVILLE |
| May 9, 2:20 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Sw Willard, WI | TREES UPROOTED AND ON POWER LINES ON COUNTY ROAD I |
| May 9, 2:20 PM CDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | 2 Sw Willard, WI | TREES UPROOTED AND ON POWER LINES ON COUNTY ROAD I |
| May 9, 2:55 PM CDT | HAIL 0.25 | Neillsville, WI |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 1664 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
066 WWUS73 KARX 091743 NPWARX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1243 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2011 ...STRONG SUSTAINED WINDS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... .STRONG SUSTAINED AND GUSTY EAST WINDS WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN AS RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS COME TO AN END. SUSTAINED WINDS OF UP TO 40 MPH WITH SOME GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH IS EXPECTED. WIZ017-029-092100- /O.NEW.KARX.HW.W.0001.110509T1800Z-110509T2100Z/ TAYLOR-CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MEDFORD...NEILLSVILLE 1243 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. * STRONG SUSTAINED AND GUSTY WINDS WILL OCCUR NOW THROUGH LATE THIS AFTERNOON. * SUSTAINED EAST WINDS OF UP TO 40 MPH FOR OVER AN HOUR WITH SOME GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH ARE EXPECTED AS RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS COME AN END. * DAMAGE IS POSSIBLE TO SOME TREES AND STRUCTURES. TRAVEL WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR ANY HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES DRIVING ON NORTH TO SOUTH ROADWAYS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$ HALBACH WEATHER.GOV/LACROSSE
1 follow-up statement
336 WWUS73 KARX 092027 NPWARX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 327 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2011 ...STRONG WINDS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA... .THE STRONG WINDS THAT OCCURRED IN THE WAKE OF THE COMPLEX OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE SHIFTED EAST OF THE AREA. THEREFORE...THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WIZ017-029-092130- /O.CAN.KARX.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110509T2100Z/ TAYLOR-CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MEDFORD...NEILLSVILLE 327 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. THE STRONG WINDS THAT OCCURRED IN THE WAKE OF THE COMPLEX OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE SHIFTED EAST OF THE AREA. THEREFORE...THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ DAS WEATHER.GOV/LACROSSE
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.