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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

May 27, 1995Dixon County, Nebraska

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1995, 5:05 PM CDT for Dixon County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1995, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Dixon County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 1995-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
522 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFSD 272207
SVRFSD
NEC051-272230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
505 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
 
   ...WESTERN DIXON COUNTY
 
AT 505 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE DIXON/CEDAR COUNTY LINE...JUST NORTHWEST OF THE
COMMUNITY OF DIXON. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES IN
WAYNE COUNTY...AND RADAR STILL INDICATED ROTATION WITH THIS STORM. THIS
STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 15 MPH. THE NEXT COMMUNITY IN THE PATH
OF THIS STORM WOULD BE MASKELL...WHERE THE STORM SHOULD BE APPROACHING
BY 600 PM.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...YOU SHOULD GET TO A
REINFORCED SHELTER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH..^.HAIL 3/4 INCH OR LARGER...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY
RAIN THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA.
 
MBG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 4:29 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDixon31 min
May 27, 5:32 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDakota28 min
May 27, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDakota45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.