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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

August 28, 1995McCook County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1995, 4:51 PM CDT for McCook County, South Dakota. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 28, 1995, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 1995, 5:25 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County McCook County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 159 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1995-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 377 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1995-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -50 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
377 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-381 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
969 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFSD 282153 RRA
SVRFSD
SDC087-282225-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
451 PM CDT MON AUG 28 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 525 PM CDT (425 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA

   ...SOUTHERN MCCOOK COUNTY
 
AT 451 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY SIOUX FALLS
DOPPLER RADAR 32 MILES EAST OF MITCHELL OR NEAR STANLEY CORNER
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
STANLEY CORNER           AROUND 454 PM CDT
CANISTOTA                AROUND 504 PM CDT
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.

HEITKAMP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 4:19 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMcCook31 min
Aug 28, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDYankton34 min
Aug 28, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln33 min
Aug 28, 5:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln34 min
Aug 28, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln, Union31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.