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Special Weather Statement, NWS La Crosse, WI

May 8, 2014Mitchell County, Iowa; Dodge County, Mower County, Minnesota

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this special weather statement at May 8, 2014, 2:00 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Iowa; Dodge County, Mower County, Minnesota. It was in force for 90 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 2014, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2014, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 90 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI

Counties Mitchell County, IA, Dodge County, MN, Mower County, MN

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 8, 11:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 11:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 9:50 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 8, 2:00 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
200 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2014

IAZ008-MNZ086-094-082030-
MITCHELL-DODGE-MOWER-
200 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2014

...A LINE OF STRONG STORMS TO IMPACT PARTS OF THE AREA...

AT 200 PM CDT...A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED
FROM SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INTO NORTHERN IOWA...MAINLY WEST OF
INTERSTATE 35. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 45
MPH...AND COULD IMPACT PARTS OF THE AREA IN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO.
THESE STORMS WOULD BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS IF THEY MAINTAIN THE SAME INTENSITY. NOW IS THE TIME TO
PREPARE FOR THESE THREATS.

LOCATIONS POSSIBLY MPACTED INCLUDE...
AUSTIN...OSAGE...DODGE
CENTER...MANTORVILLE...KASSON...HAYFIELD... GRAND MEADOW...ST.
ANSGAR...ADAMS...WEST CONCORD...BROWNSDALE...
LYLE...CLAREMONT...STACYVILLE...ROSE CREEK...RAMSEY...LANSING...
WASIOJA...CONCORD AND RACINE.

LAT...LON 4420 9270 4383 9269 4383 9245 4360 9245
      4321 9292 4321 9302 4419 9305
TIME...MOT...LOC 1857Z 219DEG 49KT 4396 9441 4308 9376

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The office that day

Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 1:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Taylor	45 min
May 8, 2:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Taylor	35 min
May 8, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Buffalo	61 min
May 8, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Trempealeau	30 min
May 8, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Buffalo, Trempealeau	44 min
May 8, 3:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Floyd, Mitchell	61 min
May 8, 2:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Mitchell	53 min
May 8, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Clayton	56 min
May 7, 10:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Dodge	55 min
May 8, 1:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Dodge, Mower	54 min
May 8, 3:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Dodge	28 min
May 8, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Dodge	36 min
May 8, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Mower, Olmsted	49 min
May 8, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Dodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona	54 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.