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Winter Storm Watch 6, NWS La Crosse, WI

March 22, 2018Crawford County, Grant County, Wisconsin; 8 counties in Iowa; 7 counties in Minnesota

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this winter storm watch at Mar 22, 2018, 3:23 AM CDT for Crawford County, Grant County, Wisconsin; 8 counties in Iowa; 7 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Mar 23, 2018, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 22, 2018, 3:23 AM CDT (08:23 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 23, 2018, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 23, 2018, 3:50 AM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI

Counties Allamakee County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Howard County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Dodge County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Houston County, MN, Mower County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Winona County, MN, Crawford County, WI, Grant County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:25 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 237 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: 2070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 storm watch went out at Mar 22, 2:35 AM CDT, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 2:35 AM CDT, 48 minutes before

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Winter Storm Watches in Iowa, 2018 Winter Storm Watches in Minnesota, 2018 Winter Storm Watches in Wisconsin, 2018 Every winter storm watch in 2018

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.