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Freeze Warning 4, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this freeze warning at May 5, 2026, 1:08 PM CDT for 7 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at May 6, 2026, 2:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2026, 1:08 PM CDT (18:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 6, 2026, 2:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 6, 2026, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
Counties Adams County, WI, Clark County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 249 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 1:08 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | ARX | Buffalo, Crawford, Grant, La Crosse, Richland, Vernon | 19 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.