Alert archive / Wisconsin / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this special weather statement at Mar 6, 2016, 6:10 PM CST for Adams County, Juneau County, Richland County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 50 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
- Mar 6, 2016, 6:10 PM CST (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2016, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
Counties Adams County, WI, Juneau County, WI, Richland County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1344 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 603 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 758 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Mar 6, 5:35 PM CST, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 5:35 PM CST, 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 535 PM CST SUN MAR 6 2016 .SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT) ISSUED AT 253 PM CST SUN MAR 6 2016 WARMING TAKING PLACE ACROSS THE REGION THANKS TO INCREASING SOUTHERLY FLOW AND HAZY SUNSHINE DUE TO SCATTERED/BROKEN ACCAS CLOUD.TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON WERE IN THE MIDDLE 40S TO THE LOWER 50S. SCATTERED MID/HIGH CLOUD ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING EXPECTED TO GIVE WAY TO INCREASING LOWER CLOUDS AFTER MIDNIGHT AS SOUTHERLY FLOW STARTS TO TAP GULF MOISTURE. WILL LIKELY SEE SOME FOG DEVELOPMENT ALONG AND NORTH OF I-94 WITH WEAKER GRADIENT WINDS AND POOLING OF SNOWMELT MOISTURE AND INCOMING MILDER GULF MOISTURE OVER THE COOLER/MELTING SNOWPACK. REST OF THE AREA EXPECTED TO REMAIN FOG- FREE AS SOUTHERLY SURFACE WINDS KEEP LOWER BOUNDARY LAYER MIXED. PLAN ON MILD OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE 40S. RAIN CHANCES WILL BE ON THE INCREASE MONDAY INTO MONDAY NIGHT AS LOW PRESSURE TRACKS NORTHEAST OUT OF THE CENTRAL PLAINS INTO SD. STRENGTHENING LOW LEVEL JET/850MB MOISTURE TRANSPORT AHEAD OF THE LOW EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWER ACTIVITY. OTHERWISE... LOOK FOR HIGHS MONDAY IN THE MIDDLE 50S/LOWER 60S WITH LOWS MONDAY NIGHT REMAINING VERY MILD IN THE MIDDLE 40S TO THE MIDDLE 50S. .LONG TERM...(TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY) ISSUED AT 253 PM CST SUN MAR 6 2016 MODELS INDICATING SHOWERS WILL BE ON A DIMINISHING TREND TUESDAY AS 850MB MOISTURE TRANSPORT GET SHUNTED EAST OF THE AREA AND DRIER PLAINS AIR OVERSPREADS THE AREA. WITH THE AREA FIRMLY IN THE WARM SECTOR OF LOW PRESSURE TRACKING NORTHEAST ACROSS MN...WILL SEE TEMPERATURES PUSH INTO THE LOWER/MIDDLE 60S ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. MAY HAVE TO WATCH COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE CLOSELY TUESDAY EVENING AS THE NAM BUFKIT SHOWS A LINE OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS FORMING AS MID- LEVEL CAP ERODES. NAM PRODUCES 0-3KM MUCAPE OF 500-1000J/KG ALONG WITH 0-3KM BULK SHEAR OF 30-35KT COULD HELP TO ORGANIZE A FEW VIGOROUS STORMS FROM CENTRAL WI INTO NORTHEAST IA. SHOWER CHANCES CONTINUE REST OF TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS A MID LEVEL TROUGH TRACKS EAST ACROSS THE REGION. OTHERWISE...TEMPERATURES WILL BE A BIT COOLER WEDNESDAY WITH HIGHS IN THE MIDDLE 40S TO THE LOWER 50S. DRY WITH TEMPERATURES REBOUNDING THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AS RIDGING BUILDS ACROSS THE REGION. LOOK FOR HIGHS MAINLY IN THE 50S THURSDAY AND IN THE MIDDLE/UPPER 50S FRIDAY. WILL THEN SEE INCREASING RAIN CHANCES SATURDAY/SUNDAY AS BOTH THE GFS/ECMWF SHOWING A CLOSED LOWS SLOWLY LIFTING TOWARD THE AREA FROM THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. OTHERWISE...REMAINING VERY MILD WITH HIGHS SATURDAY IN THE UPPER 50S/LOWER 60S SATURDAY AND IN THE 50S SUNDAY. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z MONDAY EVENING) ISSUED AT 535 PM CST SUN MAR 6 2016 VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH MUCH OF THE UPCOMING NIGHT... WITH LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR A CONCERN (EVEN AT KRST FOR A TIME THIS EVENING) AND AN EXPECTED GRADUAL INCREASE OF CLOUDS IN THE 4-5KFT RANGE. THERE COULD BE A TOUCH OF SOME LIGHT FOG AROUND KRST LATER TONIGHT WITH INCREASING MOISTURE OVER THE COLD GROUND...AS LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR CONCERNS EASE WITH WEAKENING WINDS ALOFT. A BETTER SURGE OF MOISTURE SHOULD PUSH A BATCH OF MVFR CEILINGS BACK NORTH INTO THE AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON ON MONDAY...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR CEILINGS TO DIP TO IFR RANGE AT KRST ANYTIME AFTER 21Z. IN ADDITION...THERE COULD BE A TOUCH OF DRIZZLE DEVELOPING BY LATE IN THE PERIOD...BUT WITH BETTER CHANCES FOR THIS TO OCCUR INTO MONDAY EVENING...WHEN CEILINGS AND VISIBILITY SHOULD CONTINUE TO DROP. && .ARX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WI...NONE. MN...NONE. IA...NONE. && SHORT TERM....DAS LONG TERM.....DAS AVIATION...LAWRENCE
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 6, 3:17 PM CST, 2 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 317 PM CST SUN MAR 6 2016 IAZ008>011-018-019-029-030-MNZ079-086>088-094>096-WIZ017-029- 032>034-041>044-053>055-061-071200- MITCHELL-HOWARD-WINNESHIEK-ALLAMAKEE-FLOYD-CHICKASAW-FAYETTE- CLAYTON-WABASHA-DODGE-OLMSTED-WINONA-MOWER-FILLMORE-HOUSTON- TAYLOR-CLARK-BUFFALO-TREMPEALEAU-JACKSON-LA CROSSE-MONROE-JUNEAU- ADAMS-VERNON-CRAWFORD-RICHLAND-GRANT- 317 PM CST SUN MAR 6 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...NORTHEAST IOWA...AND SOUTHWEST INTO CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY EVENING. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. .EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATION... NO WEBINAR IS SCHEDULED. DAS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 6:10 PM CST, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
610 PM CST SUN MAR 6 2016
WIZ042>044-053-055-070100-
RICHLAND-JUNEAU-ADAMS-MONROE-VERNON-
610 PM CST SUN MAR 6 2016
...ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EASTERN
MONROE...NORTHEASTERN VERNON...JUNEAU...ADAMS AND RICHLAND
COUNTIES THROUGH 7 PM...
AT 607 PM CST...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF TOMAH TO NEAR ELROY TO RICHLAND
CENTER...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE AS THIS LINE MOVES EAST THROUGH 8 PM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE AREAS NEAR...
TOMAH...RICHLAND CENTER...MAUSTON...NEW LISBON...ADAMS...ELROY...
HILLSBORO...NECEDAH...NEW ROME...BIG FLATS...ROCKBRIDGE...LINDINA...
AND AVOCA.
LAT...LON 4364 9031 4356 9031 4355 9019 4319 9019
4321 9050 4414 9063 4415 9032 4418 9031
4425 8978 4425 8960 4364 8960
TIME...MOT...LOC 0007Z 262DEG 52KT 4412 9049 4373 9034 4331 9039
LAWRENCEThe office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 6:34 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Adams, Juneau | 26 min |
| Mar 6, 6:56 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Adams | 34 min |
| Mar 6, 7:29 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Adams | 31 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Wisconsin, 2016Every special weather statement 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.