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Special Weather Statement, NWS La Crosse, WI

August 9, 2026Juneau County, Wisconsin

NWS La Crosse, WI issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2026, 8:39 AM CDT for Juneau County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 9, 2026, 8:39 AM CDT (13:39 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2026, 9:15 AM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS La Crosse, WI
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 50

County Juneau County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 303 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: 33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -386 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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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
Aug 9, 6:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Buffalo, Trempealeau	41 min
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, 1:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Wabasha	34 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Wisconsin, 2026 Every special weather statement 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.