Cold temperatures and winds combined to create bitterly cold wind chills across parts of southwest and central Wisconsin on January 28th.
Every event with a place to put it; 7 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS ARX wrote it up.
Cold temperatures and winds combined to create bitterly cold wind chills across parts of southwest and central Wisconsin on January 28th.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jan 27, 2:33 PM CST, 12 hours 47 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 245 PM CST WED JAN 27 2010 IAZ008-009-018-019-MNZ086-087-094-095-281200- CHICKASAW-DODGE-FILLMORE-FLOYD-HOWARD-MITCHELL-MOWER-OLMSTED- 245 PM CST WED JAN 27 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST IOWA AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT WIND CHILLS OF 20 TO 25 BELOW ARE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT. A WIND CHILL ADVISORY WILL BE IN EFFECT BEGINNING AT MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY WIND CHILLS OF 20 TO 25 BELOW ARE EXPECTED THROUGH MID MORNING THURSDAY...DURING WHICH TIME A WIND CHILL ADVISORY CONTINUES IN EFFECT. FOR LATE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING...WINDS CHILLS OF 10 TO 20 BELOW ARE ANTICIPATED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NO ACTION IS NECESSARY. .EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATION... NO CALL IS SCHEDULED. IAZ010-011-029-030-MNZ079-088-096-WIZ017-029-032>034-041>044-053>055- 061-281200- ADAMS-ALLAMAKEE-BUFFALO-CLARK-CLAYTON-CRAWFORD-FAYETTE-GRANT-HOUSTON- JACKSON-JUNEAU-LA CROSSE-MONROE-RICHLAND-TAYLOR-TREMPEALEAU-VERNON- WABASHA-WINNESHIEK-WINONA- 245 PM CST WED JAN 27 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST IOWA...SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...AND SOUTHWEST INTO CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT WIND CHILLS OF 15 TO 25 BELOW ARE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY WIND CHILL READINGS OF 15 TO 25 BELOW ARE EXPECTED THROUGH MID MORNING THURSDAY. FOR LATE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING... WINDS CHILLS OF 10 TO 20 BELOW ARE ANTICIPATED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NO ACTION IS NECESSARY. .EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATION... NO CALL IS SCHEDULED. 04/THOMPSON
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
7 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
Wind chill values dropped as low as -20 at Fennimore on January 28th.
Wind chill values were as low as -29 at Medford on January 28th and -26 at Diamond Lake.
Wind chill values dropped as low as -22 at Friendship on January 28th.
Wind chill values were -15 to -25 during the 28th of January.
Wind chill values were as low as -26 at Loyal and -23 at Neillsville.
Wind chill values dropped as low as -23 at Alma on January 28th.
Wind chill values were as low as -20 on January 28th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, January 2010
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 206111, 206105, 206109, 206107, 206106, 206108, 206110.