Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1995, 8:40 AM CDT for Turner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 1995, 8:40 AM CDT (13:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1995, 9:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Turner County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 46 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 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 203 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 841 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSD 021340 RRA SVRFSD SDC125-021425- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 840 AM CDT SAT SEP 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 925 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA ...TURNER COUNTY AT 837 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY SIOUX FALLS DOPPLER RADAR 28 MILES WEST OF SIOUX FALLS OR 3 MILES WEST OF MONROE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. AT 814 TO 820 AM CDT BASEBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THE SALEM AREA. THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... MONROE AROUND 843 AM CDT MARION AROUND 846 AM CDT PARKER AROUND 854 AM CDT HURLEY AROUND 907 AM CDT CHANCELLOR AROUND 907 AM CDT DAVIS AROUND 915 AM CDT HOOKER AROUND 919 AM CDT VIBORG AROUND 919 AM CDT WB 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clark | 30 min |
| Sep 2, 5:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clark | 52 min |
| Sep 2, 6:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hamlin | 30 min |
| Sep 2, 6:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 40 min |
| Sep 2, 7:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook | 47 min |
| Sep 2, 8:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha, Moody | 24 min |
| Sep 2, 9:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Yankton | 41 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.