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Flood Watch 3, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flood watch at Jul 23, 2025, 2:47 PM CDT for Clark County, Taylor County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2025, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2025, 1:12 AM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Clark County, WI, Taylor County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood 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 flood watch went out at Jul 23, 2:07 PM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 2:07 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
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Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 2:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Crawford | 45 min |
| Jul 23, 2:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Crawford, Grant | 46 min |
| Jul 23, 2:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Clark | 58 min |
| Jul 23, 3:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Clark | 44 min |
| Jul 23, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Clark | 33 min |
| Jul 23, 4:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ARX | Buffalo, Trempealeau | 97 min |
| Jul 23, 12:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Fayette | 45 min |
| Jul 23, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fayette | 34 min |
| Jul 23, 1:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Winneshiek | 42 min |
| Jul 23, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Chickasaw, Floyd | 44 min |
| Jul 23, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Chickasaw | 14 min |
| Jul 23, 3:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Clayton, Fayette | 3 hr |
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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.