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Fire Weather Watch 4, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this fire weather watch at Oct 7, 2012, 2:14 PM CDT for 8 counties in Iowa; 7 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Oct 8, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 7, 2012, 2:14 PM CDT (19:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 8, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2012, 3:48 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
Counties Allamakee County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Howard County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Dodge County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Houston County, MN, Mower County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Winona County, MN
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 1315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at Oct 6, 6:32 PM CDT, 19 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 6, 6:32 PM CDT, 19 hours 42 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.