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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 15, 2016Clark County, Jackson County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2016, 3:09 PM CDT for Clark County, Jackson County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 51 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 15, 2016, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2016, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Clark County, WI, Jackson County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 511 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

392 
WUUS53 KARX 152009
SVRARX
WIC019-053-152100-
/O.NEW.KARX.SV.W.0032.160615T2009Z-160615T2100Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
309 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN CLARK COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN...
  NORTH CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 308 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HUMBIRD...OR
  11 MILES NORTH OF BLACK RIVER FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HATFIELD AROUND 325 PM CDT. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
MERRILLAN...ALMA CENTER...BRUCE MOUND...LAKE ARBUTUS AND WILDCAT
MOUND.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4443 9094 4454 9087 4449 9049 4434 9055
TIME...MOT...LOC 2008Z 278DEG 20KT 4446 9085 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

AJ

2 follow-up statements

703 
WWUS53 KARX 152018
SVSARX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
318 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

WIC019-053-152100-
/O.CON.KARX.SV.W.0032.000000T0000Z-160615T2100Z/
CLARK WI-JACKSON WI-
318 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CLARK AND CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTIES...

AT 317 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEILLSVILLE TO NEAR HATFIELD...
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO 
         ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL
AREAS...IMPACTING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: LAKE ARBUTUS...EAST FORK
CAMPGROUND AND BRUCE MOUND.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4441 9084 4452 9076 4449 9049 4434 9055
TIME...MOT...LOC 2017Z 283DEG 24KT 4448 9071 4440 9078 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

AJ

349 
WWUS53 KARX 152030
SVSARX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
330 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

WIC019-053-152100-
/O.CON.KARX.SV.W.0032.000000T0000Z-160615T2100Z/
CLARK WI-JACKSON WI-
330 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CLARK AND CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTIES...

AT 328 PM CDT...A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ABOUT
4 MILES EAST OF HATFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE
HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING FUNNEL CLOUDS.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO 
         ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
SOUTH CENTRAL CLARK AND CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: EAST FORK CAMPGROUND.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4439 9076 4450 9068 4449 9049 4434 9055
TIME...MOT...LOC 2028Z 283DEG 24KT 4446 9062 4438 9069 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

AJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 8:05 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ARX	La Crosse	115 min
Jun 14, 9:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Juneau, Monroe, Richland	62 min
Jun 15, 1:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Clark, Taylor	57 min
Jun 15, 2:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Jackson	55 min
Jun 15, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Clark, Taylor	75 min
Jun 15, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Jackson	35 min
Jun 15, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Adams	89 min
Jun 15, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Juneau	39 min
Jun 15, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Adams	66 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2016 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2016

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.