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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 14, 1995Dixon County, Nebraska

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1995, 8:54 PM CDT for Dixon County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 1995, 8:54 PM CDT (01:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1995, 9:40 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Dixon County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1995-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1993 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1995-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1993 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 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 150156 RRA
SVRFSD
NEC051-150240-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
854 PM CDT FRI JUL 14 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 940 PM CDT (840 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA

   ...DIXON NE
 
AT 850 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY SIOUX FALLS
DOPPLER RADAR 30 MILES WEST OF SIOUX CITY OR 1 MILE EAST OF CONCORD
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
DIXON                    BY 915 PM CDT
ALLEN                    BY 915 PM CDT
MARTINSBURG              BY 930 PM CDT
PONCA HURLEYS ARPT       BY 930 PM CDT
 
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.

RUBY

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

Local storm report, Jul 14, 4:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
400 PM CDT FRI JUL 14 1995

STORM DATA FOR THU JUL 13 1995

TIME            COUNTY...LOCATION          CHARACTER OF STORM...DAMAGE

1100 PM CDT      HUGHES CO...BLUNT            TREE DAMAGE...THREE INCH
                                              BRANCHES BROKEN

BETWEEN 1130 PM  HAND CO...ST. LAWRENCE       LARGE TREES UPROOTED...
AND MIDNIGHT               12 N               GARAGE BLOWN DOWN

ABOUT 10 PM CDT  JONES CO...OKATON            SMALL BRANCHES DOWN...
                                              HAIL DAMAGE TO CROPS.

SPRINGER
Local storm report, Jul 14, 4:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
400 PM CDT FRI JUL 14 1995

STORM DATA FOR THU JUL 13 1995

TIME            COUNTY...LOCATION          CHARACTER OF STORM...DAMAGE

1100 PM CDT      HUGHES CO...BLUNT            TREE DAMAGE...THREE INCH
                                              BRANCHES BROKEN

BETWEEN 1130 PM  HAND CO...ST. LAWRENCE       LARGE TREES UPROOTED...
AND MIDNIGHT               12 N               GARAGE BLOWN DOWN

ABOUT 10 PM CDT  JONES CO...OKATON            SMALL BRANCHES DOWN...
                                              HAIL DAMAGE TO CROPS.

SPRINGER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDakota30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 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.