Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1996, 10:42 PM CDT for Brule County, South Dakota. It was in force for 43 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
- Sep 2, 1996, 10:42 PM CDT (03:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1996, 11:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brule County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2991 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSD 030343 SVRFSD SDC015-030425- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1042 PM CDT MON SEP 2 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS SD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1125 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA ...BRULE COUNTY AT 1040 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY SIOUX FALLS DOPPLER RADAR 20 MILES SOUTH OF CHAMBERLAIN IN THE VICNITY OF BIJOU HILLS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... EAGLE AROUND 1055 PM CDT IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A TSTRONG...REINFORCED BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, Sep 2, 5:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
SDZ012-013-024>031-041-022330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 505 PM CDT MON SEP 2 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR FAR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 996 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR FAR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA INCLUDING RAPID CITY...BELLE FOURCHE...HOT SPRINGS...AND THE BLACK HILLS. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED IN THESE AREAS. THE WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA FROM PINE RIDGE...KADOKA... AND PHILIP EAST TO KENNEBEC AND WINNER. WILLIAMS
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 8:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
SDZ032-042>047-030200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 800 PM CDT MON SEP 2 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA... SEVERE THUNDERSTOR>M WATCH NUMBER 996 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE REMAINING AREAS OF WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AS THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT HAS ENDED. THE WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR LYMAN AND TRIPP COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. WILLIAMS
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.