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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 5, 1996Murray County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 6:10 PM CDT for Murray County, Minnesota. It was in force for 65 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: Jun 5, 1996, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Whole counties

County Murray County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 195 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1263 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFSD 052310
SVRFSD
MNC101-060015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS SD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA

   ...MURRAY COUNTY
 
AT 608 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY SIOUX FALLS
DOPPLER RADAR 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF PIPESTONE  OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST
OF CURRANT LAKE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
CURRANT LAKE             AROUND 625 PM CDT
HADLEY                   AROUND 645 PM CDT
SLAYTON                  AROUND 655 PM CDT
CURRIE                   AROUND 655 PM CDT
AVOCA                    AROUND 705 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.

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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lincoln	49 min
Jun 5, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon	32 min
Jun 5, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Pipestone	31 min
Jun 5, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon, Murray	47 min
Jun 5, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Pipestone	35 min

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.