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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

May 27, 1995Dakota County, Nebraska

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1995, 5:32 PM CDT for Dakota County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1995, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Dakota County, NE

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 27, 5:38 PM CDTTornado F0Sioux City, NEA tornado touched down briefly and caused no damage. The tornado was observed, by the observer on duty, at the Sioux City Iowa Airport.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1995-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
522 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 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 272234
TORFSD
NEC043-272300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
532 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
 
   ...SOUTHERN DAKOTA COUNTY
 
AT 530 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE
TORNADO MOVING INTO SOUTHERN DAKOTA COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH
AT 15 TO 20 MPH AT WILL MOVE INTO HOMER BY 600 PM.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  IF YOU LIVE
IN A MOBILE HOME...ABANDON IT FOR A STRONGER SHELTER.
 
 
HOLMES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 4:29 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDixon31 min
May 27, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDixon25 min
May 27, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDakota45 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.