Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

Issued

Jun 5, 1996, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)

Expired

Jun 5, 1996, 6:25 PM CDT

In force

61 min

Issued by

NWS Sioux Falls, SD

Area

Whole counties

Counties McCook County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KFSD 052224
SVRFSD
SDC087-099-052325-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
524 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS SD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 625 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA

   ...EASTERN MCCOOK COUNTY
   ...WESTERN MINNEHAHA COUNTY
 
AT 520 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY SIOUX FALLS
DOPPLER RADAR 26 MILES EAST OF MITCHELL  OR 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
UNITYVILLE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
UNITYVILLE               AROUND 520 PM CDT
SALEM                    AROUND 525 PM CDT
CANISTOTA                AROUND 535 PM CDT
MONTROSE                 AROUND 540 PM CDT
HUMBOLDT                 AROUND 550 PM CDT
HARTFORD                 AROUND 556 PM CDT
LYONS                    AROUND 559 PM CDT
CROOKS                   AROUND 604 PM CDT
ELLIS                    AROUND 606 PM CDT
RENNER                   AROUND 609 PM CDT
SIOUX FALLS              AROUND 613 PM CDT
CORSON                   AROUND 619 PM CDT
BRANDON                  AROUND 619 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 ROAfDWAYS.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH
LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING.

In the hours before

IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-MNZ071-072-080-089-090-097-
098-NEZ013-014-SDZ040-055-056-059>062-065>071-052255-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1149 AM CDT WED JUN 5 1996

...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR PARTS OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST
NEBRASKA...

WEATHER PARAMETERS APPEAR TO BE COMING TOGETHER FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE
WEATHER ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

LOW PRESSURE AND A COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE
NORTHERN PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SUFFICIENT LOW LEVEL
MOISTURE...GOOD HEATING...AND A STRONG UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE WILL
ALL COME TOGETHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
WITH VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND A FEW TORNADOES ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS SYSTEM.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR
LOCAL RADIO AND TV AS THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING PROGRESSES FOR
POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS.

BR

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

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.