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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 16, 1996Dixon County, Nebraska

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1996, 9:55 PM CDT for Dixon County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1996, 9:55 PM CDT (02:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Dixon County, NE

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 00:00Z on 1996-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1921 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1921 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFSD 170256
SVRFSD
NEC051-170330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
955 PM CDT TUE JUL 16 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS SD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA

   ...CENTRAL AND NORTHERN DIXON COUNTY
 
AT 954 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY SIOUX FALLS
DOPPLER RADAR 28 MILES WEST OF SIOUX CITY OR 5 MILES WEST OF
MARTINSBURG MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
MARTINSBURG              AROUND 1010 PM CDT
WATERBURY                AROUND 1020 PM CDT
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG...REINFORCED BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DO NOT USE
TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL
THE STORM HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID FLOODED ROADWAYS.

BLOOM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDakota31 min
Jul 16, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDixon34 min
Jul 16, 9:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDDixon35 min
Jul 16, 10:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDDakota, Dixon3 hr
Jul 16, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDakota33 min
Jul 16, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDixon34 min
Jul 17, 1:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDDakota3 hr
Jul 17, 1:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDDixon3 hr

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.