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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

August 4, 1996Aurora County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1996, 6:22 PM CDT for Aurora County, South Dakota. It was in force for 33 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
Aug 4, 1996, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 1996, 6:55 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Aurora County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 132 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1996-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1878 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1996-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 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
1878 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1136 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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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
Aug 4, 6:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDTurner30 min
Aug 4, 7:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln, Minnehaha33 min
Aug 4, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDAurora, Brule18 min
Aug 4, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDAurora, Brule14 min
Aug 4, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDAurora36 min
Aug 4, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDWoodbury31 min
Aug 4, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDWoodbury34 min
Aug 4, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDIda, Woodbury31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.