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Winter Weather Advisory 11, NWS La Crosse, WI

December 4, 2021Taylor County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this winter weather advisory at Dec 4, 2021, 3:11 PM CST for Taylor County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Dec 5, 2021, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 4, 2021, 3:11 PM CST (21:11 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 5, 2021, 12:00 AM CST
Expired
Dec 5, 2021, 12:07 PM CST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS La Crosse, WI

County Taylor County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 206 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2021-12-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2021-12-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -93 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1317 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
104 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 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 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 Dec 4, 2:48 PM CST, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 4, 2:48 PM CST, 23 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 4, 2:58 PM CST, 13 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service La Crosse WI
258 PM CST Sat Dec 4 2021

IAZ008>011-018-019-029-030-MNZ079-086>088-094>096-WIZ032>034-
041>044-053>055-061-051300-
Mitchell-Howard-Winneshiek-Allamakee-Floyd-Chickasaw-Fayette-
Clayton-Wabasha-Dodge-Olmsted-Winona-Mower-Fillmore-Houston-
Buffalo-Trempealeau-Jackson-La Crosse-Monroe-Juneau-Adams-Vernon-
Crawford-Richland-Grant-
258 PM CST Sat Dec 4 2021

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of northeast
Iowa...southeast Minnesota...southwest into central Wisconsin.

.DAY ONE...Tonight

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday

Strong northwest winds Sunday night into Monday with gusts from
35 to 45 mph expected.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

No action needed.

.EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATION...

No webinar is scheduled.

WIZ017-029-051300-
Taylor-Clark-
258 PM CST Sat Dec 4 2021

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of north central
Wisconsin.

.DAY ONE...Tonight

Snow moves in tonight with accumulations of around 1 inch.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday

Snow continues Sunday into Sunday night. Snow totals will be in
the 1-3 inch range for Clark county, increasing northward to 3-6"
in Taylor county. Periodic freezing drizzle may also occur with
very light icing.

Strong west winds begin after midnight Sunday night and continue
into Monday with gusts from 35 to 45 mph expected. Some blowing
and drifting of the freshly falling snow may recover roads keeping
them slippery Monday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Snowfall reports are appreciated.

.EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATION...

No webinar is scheduled.

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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.