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Flood Watch 8, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this flood watch at Jul 8, 2026, 12:37 PM CDT for 6 counties in Iowa; 6 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2026, 12:37 PM CDT (17:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2026, 10:14 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Allamakee County, IA, Chickasaw 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, Winona County, MN
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 369 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1085 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 8, 5:46 AM CDT, 6 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 5:46 AM CDT, 6 hours 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 4:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Taylor | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Howard, Mitchell | 44 min |
| Jul 8, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Howard, Winneshiek | 41 min |
| Jul 8, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Howard, Mitchell | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Mitchell | 23 min |
| Jul 8, 5:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Howard, Mitchell | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Howard, Winneshiek | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Chickasaw, Fayette, Howard, Winneshiek | 42 min |
| Jul 8, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fayette, Winneshiek | 38 min |
| Jul 8, 4:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Mower | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flood Watches in Iowa, 2026Flood Watches in Minnesota, 2026Every flood watch in 2026
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.