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Winter Weather Advisory 4, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 2, 2016, 3:38 PM CST for 7 counties in Wisconsin; Allamakee County, Clayton County, Fayette County, Iowa. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 2, 2016, 3:38 PM CST (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2016, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
Counties Allamakee County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Adams County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Grant County, WI, Juneau County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Richland County, WI, Vernon County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 770 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory 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 winter weather advisory went out at Feb 1, 5:43 PM CST, 21 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 1, 5:43 PM CST, 21 hours 55 minutes before
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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.