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Ice Storm Warning 1, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this ice storm warning at Apr 1, 2026, 11:33 AM CDT for Clark County, Jackson County, Taylor County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Apr 2, 2026, 12:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 13 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
- Apr 1, 2026, 11:33 AM CDT (16:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 2, 2026, 12:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2026, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
Counties Clark County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Taylor County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 1254 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this ice storm 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 ice storm warning went out at Apr 1, 5:46 AM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 5:46 AM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
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Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 1:39 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | ARX | Clark, Taylor | 10 hr |
| Apr 1, 1:39 AM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | ARX | Adams, Buffalo, Jackson, Juneau, La Crosse, Monroe and 3 more | 32 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.