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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS La Crosse, WI

September 21, 2025Dodge County, Mower County, Minnesota

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 2025, 7:06 PM CDT for Dodge County, Mower County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 21, 2025, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired: Sep 21, 2025, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Dodge County, MN, Mower County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 892 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1232 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 4.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 21, 6:27 PM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 6:27 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 22, 7:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Juneau, Monroe, Richland, Vernon	39 min
Sep 22, 7:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Adams	42 min
Sep 22, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Vernon	57 min
Sep 22, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Crawford, Vernon	54 min
Sep 22, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Crawford	46 min
Sep 22, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Grant	23 min
Sep 22, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Crawford, Grant	38 min
Sep 21, 7:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Mower	30 min
Sep 22, 2:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Olmsted	41 min
Sep 22, 2:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Dodge	40 min
Sep 22, 6:43 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ARX	Dodge, Mower, Olmsted	3 hr
Sep 22, 11:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Houston	26 min

Nearby

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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.