Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1995, 11:47 PM CDT for Turner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1995, 11:47 PM CDT (04:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1995, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Turner County, SD
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 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
- 1363 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSD 100449 RRA SVRFSD SDC125-100515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1147 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA ...NORTHERN TURNER COUNTY AT 1145 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES WEST OF SIOUX FALLS NEAR DOLTON SD MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 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. WILLIAMS
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, Jul 9, 11:00 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
SDZ004>011-016>023-100500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1100 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FAR NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA BUT CONTINUES UNTIL MIDNIGHT FROM ABERDEEN AND HURON WEST TO THE MISSOURI RIVER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 754 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SOUTH DAKOTA BUT CONTINUED UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FROM ABERDEEN AND HURON WEST TO LAKE OAHE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS EVENING JUST NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF THIS AREA AND MAY CONTINUE TO BE A THREAT TO AND PAST MIDNIGHT. WILLIAMS
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 11:05 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
SDZ004>011-016>023-100500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1100 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FAR NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA BUT CONTINUES UNTIL MIDNIGHT FROM ABERDEEN AND HURON WEST TO THE MISSOURI RIVER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 754 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SOUTH DAKOTA BUT CONTINUED UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FROM ABERDEEN AND HURON WEST TO LAKE OAHE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS EVENING JUST NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF THIS AREA AND MAY CONTINUE TO BE A THREAT TO AND PAST MIDNIGHT. WILLIAMS
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.