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Special Weather Statement, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 1, 2014Buffalo County, Wisconsin; Winona County, Minnesota

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this special weather statement at Jun 1, 2014, 8:53 AM CDT for Buffalo County, Wisconsin; Winona County, Minnesota. It was in force for 37 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: Jun 1, 2014, 8:53 AM CDT (13:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2014, 9:30 AM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI

Counties Winona County, MN, Buffalo County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 327 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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 Jun 1, 6:29 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 6:29 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 5:40 AM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 1, 8:53 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
853 AM CDT SUN JUN 1 2014

MNZ079-087-088-WIZ032-011430-
OLMSTED-WABASHA-WINONA-BUFFALO-
853 AM CDT SUN JUN 1 2014

...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN OLMSTED...
EASTERN WABASHA...NORTHWESTERN WINONA AND BUFFALO COUNTIES...

AT 848 AM CDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ALONG A LINE FROM
JUST SOUTHEAST OF DURAND WISCONSIN TO NEAR ROCHESTER MINNESOTA AND
WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS ALONG WITH VERY
HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ROCHESTER...WINONA...MONDOVI...WABASHA...ALMA...GOODVIEW...ST.
CHARLES... PLAINVIEW...EYOTA...LEWISTON...ELGIN...BUFFALO
CITY...FOUNTAIN CITY...DOVER... STOCKTON...ROLLINGSTONE... ALTURA...
KELLOGG...MODENA...

LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL COULD OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
CAUSE SOME LOCALIZED PONDING OF WATER. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE
THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 4427 9212 4460 9198 4459 9153 4425 9153
      4422 9156 4421 9160 4418 9160 4417 9161
      4416 9159 4395 9180 4389 9243
TIME...MOT...LOC 1348Z 247DEG 34KT 4459 9185 4397 9235

DAS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 9:49 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	ARX	Buffalo	37 hr
Jun 1, 9:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Trempealeau	40 min
Jun 1, 2:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	ARX	Adams, Buffalo, Clark, Crawford, Jackson, Juneau and 6 more	13 hr
Jun 1, 4:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Vernon	6 hr
Jun 1, 5:46 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ARX	Richland, Vernon	61 hr
Jun 1, 5:46 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ARX	Crawford, Vernon	70 hr
Jun 1, 3:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ARX	Mitchell	6 hr
Jun 1, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Mower	31 min
Jun 1, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Fillmore	50 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Wisconsin, 2014 Special Weather Statements in Minnesota, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.