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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

September 6, 1995Nobles County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1995, 12:04 AM CDT for Nobles County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 6, 1995, 12:04 AM CDT (05:04 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 1995, 12:28 AM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Nobles County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:06 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1995-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 294 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1995-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
294 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1265 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFSD 060504 RRA
SVRFSD
MNC105-060550-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1204 AM CDT WED SEP 6 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1250 AM CDT 
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA

   ...NOBLES COUNTY
 
AT MIDNIGHT CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY SIOUX FALLS
DOPPLER RADAR 12 MILES NORTH OF SIBLEY  OR 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
RUSHMORE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
BIGELOW                  AROUND 1215 AM CDT
ORG                      AROUND 1215 AM CDT
WORTHINGTON              AROUND 1220 AM CDT
ROUND LAKE               AROUND 1235 AM CDT
BREWSTER                 AROUND 1235 AM CDT
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVhE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.

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.