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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

October 16, 1996Dakota County, Dixon County, Nebraska

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 16, 1996, 10:16 PM CDT for Dakota County, Dixon County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 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
Oct 16, 1996, 10:16 PM CDT (03:16 UTC)
Expired
Oct 16, 1996, 11:05 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 1996-10-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1552 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 1996-10-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 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
1552 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1255 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFSD 170317
SVRFSD
NEC043-051-170405-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1016 PM CDT WED OCT 16 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS SD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1105 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA

   ...DAKOTA COUNTY
   ...SOUTHERN DIXON COUNTY
 
AT 1014 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY SIOUX FALLS
DOPPLER RADAR 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SIOUX CITY OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST
OF EMERSON MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
EMERSON                  AROUND 1025 PM CDT
HUBBARD                  AROUND 1040 PM CDT
WILLIS                   AROUND 1040 PM CDT
HOMER                    AROUND 1045 PM CDT
DAKOTA CITY              AROUND 1055 PM CDT

LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.

CHAPMAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 16, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDixon29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 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.