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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 7, 1995Lincoln County, Turner County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1995, 4:47 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Turner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1995, 4:47 AM CDT (09:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1995, 5:15 AM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lincoln County, SD, Turner County, SD

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 213 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 578 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1995-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 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
578 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 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 070948 RRA
SVRFSD
SDC083-125-071015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
447 AM CDT WED JUN 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA
 
   ...WESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY...EASTERN TURNER COUNTY
 
AT 445...SIOUX FALLS DOPPLER RADAR WAS DETECTING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS NEAR PARKER...AND 20 SOUTHWEST OF
SIOUX FALLS NEAR HURLEY.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH...AND
WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF DAVIS AND CHANCELLOR BY 455 AM...AND LENNOX AND
WORTHING AFTER 505B AM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOR ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.
 
CHAPMAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrule35 min
Jun 6, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrule20 min
Jun 7, 12:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDTurner42 min
Jun 7, 12:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln38 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.