Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 2:21 PM CDT for Minnehaha County, South Dakota. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1995, 2:21 PM CDT (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1995, 3:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Minnehaha County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1095 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSD 231922 RRA SVRFSD SDC099-232005- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 221 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 305 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA ...SOUTHERN MINNEHAHA COUNTY AT 209 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR 13 MILES WEST OF SIOUX FALLS OR 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HARTFORD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... HARTFORD BY 225 PM CDT ELLIS BY 230 PM CDT CROOKS BY 240 PM CDT JOE FOSS FLD BY 245 PM CDT SIOUX FALLS ARPT BY 245 PM CDT SIOUX FALLS BY 245 PM CDT NORTON ACRES BY 245 PM CDT RENNER BY 245 PM CDT BALTIC BY 300 PM 0CDT 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. CHAPMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Turner | 46 min |
| Jul 23, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 30 min |
| Jul 23, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 19 min |
Nearby
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.