Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1995, 10:19 PM CDT for Charles Mix County, South Dakota. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1995, 10:19 PM CDT (03:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1995, 10:46 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Charles Mix County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 3505 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSD 090319 RRA SVRFSD SDC023-090405- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1019 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1105 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA ...EASTERN CHARLES MIX COUNTY AT 1015 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY SIOUX FALLS DOPPLER RADAR 11 MILES NORTH OF LAKE ANDES OR 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF GEDDES MOVING EAST AT 23 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND vVERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.
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, Aug 8, 5:41 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before
SDZ004-005-009-010-015>017-032>037-043>051-057-082330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 541 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELED PORTIONS OF TORNADO WATCH 911 WHICH WAS TO BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DECREASED OVER THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... SDC055-082330- ...WEST CENTRAL... HAAKON SDC007-071-082330- ...SOUTHWEST... BENNETT JACKSON SDC021-041-045-049-089-107-129-082330- ...NORTH CENTRAL... CAMPBELL DEWEY EDMUNDS FAULK MCPHERSON POTTER WALWORTH SDC017-059-061-065-069-073-075-085-117-119-082330- ...CENTRAL... BUFFALO HAND HANSON HUGHES HYDE JONES LYMAN STANLEY SULLY SDC003-015-023-043-053-095-121-123-082330- ...SOUTH CENTRAL... BRULE GREGORY MELLETTE TODD TRIPP THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR THE REST OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA ORIGINALLY INCLUDED IN THE WATCH. PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES. MED
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 5:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
SDZ004-005-009-010-015>017-032>037-043>051-057-082330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 541 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELED PORTIONS OF TORNADO WATCH 911 WHICH WAS TO BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DECREASED OVER THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... SDC055-082330- ...WEST CENTRAL... HAAKON SDC007-071-082330- ...SOUTHWEST... BENNETT JACKSON SDC021-041-045-049-089-107-129-082330- ...NORTH CENTRAL... CAMPBELL DEWEY EDMUNDS FAULK MCPHERSON POTTER WALWORTH SDC017-059-061-065-069-073-075-085-117-119-082330- ...CENTRAL... BUFFALO HAND HANSON HUGHES HYDE JONES LYMAN STANLEY SULLY SDC003-015-023-043-053-095-121-123-082330- ...SOUTH CENTRAL... BRULE GREGORY MELLETTE TODD TRIPP THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR THE REST OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA ORIGINALLY INCLUDED IN THE WATCH. PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOUL\D BE ALERT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES. MED
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 8:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
SDZ006>008-011-018>022-038-039-052>054-058>060-063-064-090300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 830 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH DAKOTA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELED TORNADO WATCH 911 WHICH WAS TO BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DECREASED OVER THE AREA. MED
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 9:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
SDZ006>008-011-018>022-038-039-052>054-058>060-063-064-090300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 830 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH DAKOTA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELED TORNADO WATCH 911 WHICH WAS TO BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DECREASED OVER THE AREA. MED
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.