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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2026, 6:04 AM CDT for Buffalo County, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 41 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
- Aug 9, 2026, 6:04 AM CDT (11:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2026, 6:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Buffalo County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:04 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -316 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1272 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 6:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Jackson, Trempealeau | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 7:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 7:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Juneau, Monroe | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 8:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Juneau | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 1:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ARX | Wabasha | 34 min |
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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.