Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 7:28 PM CDT for Woodbury County, Iowa. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1995, 7:28 PM CDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Woodbury County, IA
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 1958 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1543 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSD 240029 RRA SVRFSD IAC193-240100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 728 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT (700 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST IOWA ...SOUTHWESTERN WOODBURY COUNTY AT 725 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY SIOUX FALLS DOPPLER RADAR 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SIOUX CITY OR NEAR 5 MILES EAST OF LUTON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... CLIMBING HILL BY 730 PM CDT OWEGO BY 735 PM CDT HOLLY SPGS BY 740 PM CDT HORNICK BY 745 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 FBLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. CHAPMAN
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 23, 5:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
MNZ071-072-SDZ040-232325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 520 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 1995 ...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING THREAT HAS ENDED FOR BROOKINGS COUNTY...AND LINCOLN AND LYON COUNTIES IN MINNESOTA... THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PRODUCED TORRENTIAL RAINS FROM SOUTHERN BROOKINGS COUNTY ACROSS LINCOLN AND LYON COUNTIES IN MINNESOTA HAVE MOVED SOUTH AND EAST OF THE AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES NEARLY TWO INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN THE PAST THREE HOURS IN SOUTHERN BROOKINGS COUNTY. NEARLY TWO INCHES WERE REPORTED IN THE COMMUNITY OF BROOKINGS...FLOODING STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS. THE CHANCE FOR WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING...BUT HEAVY RAINFALL IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. CHAPMAN
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 5:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
MNZ071-072-SDZ040-232325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 520 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 1995 ...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING THREAT HAS ENDED FOR BROOKINGS COUNTY...AND LINCOLN AND LYON COUNTIES IN MINNESOTA... THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PRODUCED TORRENTIAL RAINS FROM SOUTHERN BROOKINGS COUNTY ACROSS LINCOLN AND LYON COUNTIES IN MINNESOTA HAVE MOVED SOUTH AND EAST OF THE AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES NEARLY TWO INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN THE PAST THREE HOURS IN SOUTHERN BROOKINGS COUNTY. NEARLY TWO INCHES WERE REPORTED IN THE COMMUNITY OF BROOKINGS...FLOODING STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS. THE CHANCE FOR WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUG@H THE EVENING...BUT HEAVY RAINFALL IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. CHAPMAN
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.