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Special Weather Statement, NWS La Crosse, WI

June 3, 2016Buffalo County, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this special weather statement at Jun 3, 2016, 3:31 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 44 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 3, 2016, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2016, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI

Counties Buffalo County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 1410 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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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 3, 3:20 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 3:20 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 3:16 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:03 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
303 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2016

MNZ079-087-088-095-WIZ032-032030-
WINONA-WABASHA-FILLMORE-OLMSTED-BUFFALO-
303 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2016

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT WESTERN WINONA...
NORTHERN FILLMORE...WABASHA...EASTERN OLMSTED AND WESTERN BUFFALO
COUNTIES...

AT 302 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR PEPIN TO NEAR SPRING VALLEY.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WABASHA...ALMA...BUFFALO...ST. CHARLES...PLAINVIEW...CHATFIELD...EYOTA...
LEWISTON...ELGIN...BUFFALO CITY...DOVER...STOCKTON...ROLLINGSTONE..

SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORMS PASS.

LAT...LON 4441 9227 4443 9216 4441 9208 4444 9207
      4449 9178 4374 9180 4376 9240
TIME...MOT...LOC 2002Z 249DEG 28KT 4440 9212 4376 9235

WETENKAMP

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:31 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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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
Jun 3, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Buffalo, Trempealeau	53 min
Jun 3, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Clark, Jackson	47 min
Jun 3, 3:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Wabasha	27 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.