Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 19, 2013, 3:20 PM CDT for Crawford County, Grant County, Richland County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 70 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 2013, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2013, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 70 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Crawford County, WI, Grant County, WI, Richland County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1919 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 19, 2:39 PM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 19, 2:39 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 19, 3:15 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 315 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2013 IAZ010-011-019-029-030-MNZ096-WIZ017-029-033-034-041>044-053>055-061- 201000- ADAMS-ALLAMAKEE-CHICKASAW-CLARK-CLAYTON-CRAWFORD-FAYETTE-GRANT- HOUSTON-JACKSON-JUNEAU-LA CROSSE-MONROE-RICHLAND-TAYLOR-TREMPEALEAU- VERNON-WINNESHIEK- 315 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...NORTHEAST IOWA...AND SOUTHWEST INTO CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL TRACK ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT...DIMINISHING AFTER MIDNIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE THROUGH MID EVENING...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY FROST WILL BE POSSIBLE SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION COULD BE NEEDED THROUGH MID EVENING. .EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATION... NO WEBINAR IS SCHEDULED. IAZ008-009-018-MNZ079-086>088-094-095-WIZ032-201000- BUFFALO-DODGE-FILLMORE-FLOYD-HOWARD-MITCHELL-MOWER-OLMSTED-WABASHA- WINONA- 315 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...NORTHEAST IOWA...AND WESTERN WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. SEVERE WEATHER IT NOT EXPECTED...BUT STRONGER WIND GUSTS AND BRIEF DOWNPOURS COULD ACCOMPANY ANY THUNDERSTORM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IT NOT ANTICIPATED. .EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATION... NO WEBINAR IS SCHEDULED. 04/RIECK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 19, 3:02 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 302 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2013 IAZ011-030-WIZ054-055-061-192100- ALLAMAKEE-CLAYTON-CRAWFORD-GRANT-RICHLAND- 302 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2013 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST IOWA AND INTO SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN... STORMS WITH ABUNDANT LIGHTNING...HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM NEAR PRAIRIE DU CHIEN WISCONSIN TO NEAR WATERLOO IOWA. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO CROSS INTO WISCONSIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON. AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE HALTED UNTIL THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. BE ALERT FOR LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. SHEA
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Richland | 42 min |
Nearby
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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.