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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

August 7, 1991Sioux County, Iowa

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1991, 5:08 PM CDT for Sioux County, Iowa. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 7, 1991, 5:08 PM CDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 1991, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Sioux County, IA

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 197 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1991-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1226 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1991-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1226 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-202 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1659 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 4:10 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
SDZ018-019-020-072200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
410 PM CDT WED AUG 7 1991

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST
SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 1000 PM CDT...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED ACROSS SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA
THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM CHARLES MIX COUNTY TO MOODY
COUNTY AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA THIS EVENING...
AND SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA
...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A REINFORCED BUILDING IMMEDIATELY. ALSO REMEMBER
THAT LIGHTNING IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.

MENTZER
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 4:36 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
IAZ001-004-005-072230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER UPDATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA
430 PM CDT WED AUG 7 1991

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF THE SIOUXLAND AREA TIL 10 PM...

AT 425 PM...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN ELK
POINT SOUTH DAKOTA...20 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX CITY AND DIXON NEBRASKA
...30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SIOUX CITY. AN AREA OF SHOWERS WAS BETWEEN
AKRON AND ORANGE CITY IOWA OR 25 MILES NORTHWEST TO 40 MILES NORTHEAST
OF SIOUX CITY. THE STORMS AND SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES
AN HOUR.

THE STRONGER STORMS WERE LIKELY PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY AND SOME SMALL
HAIL. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO ELK POINT SOUTH DAKOTA AROUND 5 PM.
PEOPLE IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND FAR NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND BE
PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.

S. QUINN
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 4:41 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
IAZ001-072230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
440 PM CDT WED AUG 7 1991

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST
SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA UNTIL 1000 PM CDT...

AT 435 PM CDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED OVER NORTHWEST IOWA...
35 MILES NORTH OF SIOUX CITY OR JUST EAST OF HAWARDEN.  THIS STORM
SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT.

PERSONS NEAR THE STORM SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THIS TIHREATENING
WEATHER.  VERY HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING
CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

GEELHART

The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDPlymouth28 min
Aug 7, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDPlymouth67 min
Aug 7, 6:09 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCherokee, Plymouth36 min

Nearby

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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.