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Heat Advisory 3, NWS La Crosse, WI

July 25, 202012 counties in Wisconsin; 8 counties in Iowa; 7 counties in Minnesota

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this heat advisory at Jul 25, 2020, 2:44 AM CDT for 12 counties in Wisconsin; 8 counties in Iowa; 7 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Jul 25, 2020, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 2020, 2:44 AM CDT (07:44 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 25, 2020, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 25, 2020, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI

All 27 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, Adams County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Clark County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Grant County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Richland County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vernon County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:48 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 00:00Z, 7.7 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: 2160 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1283 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 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 heat 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 24, 10:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 10:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 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.