Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 1, 1996Union County, South Dakota; Plymouth County, Iowa

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1996, 5:09 PM CDT for Union County, South Dakota; Plymouth County, Iowa. It was in force for 31 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
Jul 1, 1996, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1996, 5:40 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Plymouth County, IA, Union County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 1, 5:40 PM CDTTornado F0Westfield, IA

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 1996-07-01Temperature 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 1996-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2113 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln31 min
Jul 1, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion33 min
Jul 1, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln30 min
Jul 1, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion43 min
Jul 1, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion52 min
Jul 1, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon45 min
Jul 1, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSioux49 min
Jul 1, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSioux45 min
Jul 1, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDWoodbury44 min
Jul 1, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDNobles, Rock48 min
Jul 1, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMurray, Nobles48 min
Jul 1, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDJackson34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1996Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.