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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 19, 1995Pipestone County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1995, 2:40 PM CDT for Pipestone County, Minnesota. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 1995, 2:40 PM CDT (19:40 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 1995, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Pipestone County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 196 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-164 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
138 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 
WUUS1 KFSD 191941
SVRFSD
MNC117-192015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
240 PM CDT WED JUL 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA
 
   ...PIPESTONE COUNTY
 
AT 237 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS INDICATING A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF PIPESTONE. THE STORM IS MOVING
TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH...AND WILL APPROACH THE COMMUNITIES OF HOLLAND
AND WOODSTOCK BY 250 PM.
 
PUBLIC REPORTS WERE RECEIVED OF A FUNNEL CLOUD 5 MILES NORTH OF
PIPESTONE.  EARLIER...SPOTTERS ALSO REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 6 MILES EAST
OF FLANDREAU SD AT 210 PM.
 
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.
 
 
CHAPMAN
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 3:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDNobles26 min
Jul 19, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCottonwood, Murray30 min
Jul 19, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJackson35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.