Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1995, 6:50 PM CDT for Todd County, Tripp County, South Dakota. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1995, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 800 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KFSD 222352 RRA SVRFSD SDC121-123-230030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 650 PM CDT (550 PM MDT) THU JUN 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT (630 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA ...EASTERN TODD COUNTY...WESTERN TRIPP COUNTY SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE OKREEK...WITTEN. AT 650 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN TODD COUNTY ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF WINNER MOVING EAST OR NORTHEAST ABOUT 25 MPH. 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. RYRHOLM
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 3:33 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
SDZ001>070-MNZ097-098-IAZ001-012-230300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 333 PM CDT THU JUN 22 1995 ...HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA TONIGHT... A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS DUE TO THEIR SLOW MOVEMENT. THE BEST CHANCE FOR HEAVY RAINS WILL BE ACROSS THE WEST THIS EVENING AND OVER THE CENTRAL AND EAST DURING THE NIGHT. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA...ESPECIALLY THOSE NEAR RIVERS AND STREAMS...AND THOSE CAMPING IN THE BLACK HILLS...SHOULD KEEP UP TO DATE ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING DOES OCCUR OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 3:34 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
SDZ001-070-MNZ097-098-IAZ001-012-230300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 333 PM CDT THU JUN 22 1995 ...HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA TONIGHT... A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS DUE TO THEIR SLOW MOVEMENT. THE BEST CHANCE FOR HEAVY RAINS WILL BE ACROSS THE WEST THIS EVENING AND OVER THE CENTRAL AND EAST DURING THE NIGHT. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA...ESPECIALLY THOSE NEAR RIVERS AND STREAMS...AND THOSE CAMPING IN THE BLACK HILLS...SHOULD KEEP UP TO DATE ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING DOES OCCUR OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 3:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
SDZ001>070-MNZ097-098-IAZ001-012-230300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 333 PM CDT THU JUN 22 1995 ...HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA TONIGHT... A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS DUE TO THEIR SLOW MOVEMENT. THE BEST CHANCE FOR HEAVY RAINS WILL BE ACROSS THE WEST THIS EVENING AND OVER THE CENTRAL AND EAST DURING THE NIGHT. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA...ESPECIALLY THOSE NEAR RIVERS AND STREAMS...AND THOSE CAMPING IN THE BLACK HILLS...SHOULD KEEP UP TO DATE ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING DOES OCCUR OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
540 PM CDT THU JUN 22 1995
STORM DATA FOR JUNE 21 1995
TIME COUNTY...LOCATION CHARACTER OF STORM...DAMAGE
DURING HUGHES CO...PIERRE 4 N TREE BRANCHES TO 3 INCH
EVENING DIAMETER BROKEN. TEMPORARY
GREENHOUSE BLOWN AWAY
SPRINGERLocal storm report, Jun 22, 5:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
540 PM CDT THU JUN 22 1995
STORM DATA FOR JUNE 21 1995
TIME COUNTY...LOCATION CHARACTER OF STORM...DAMAGE
DURING HUGHES CO.F..PIERRE 4 N TREE BRANCHES TO 3 INCH
EVENING DIAMETER BROKEN. TEMPORARY
GREENHOUSE BLOWN AWAY
SPRINGERNearby
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.