Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 5, 1996Lincoln County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 6:24 PM CDT for Lincoln County, South Dakota. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1996, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1996, 6:55 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 5, 6:30 PM CDTHail 0.75Sioux Falls, SD
Jun 5, 6:45 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 60Canton, SD

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 220 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 169 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1091 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
261 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFSD 052325
SVRFSD
SDC083-052355-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS SD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 655 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA

   ...NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY
 
AT 621 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY SIOUX FALLS
DOPPLER RADAR IN THE VICINITY OF SIOUX FALLS  OR IN THE VICINITY OF
SIOUX FALLS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
SIOUX FALLS              AROUND 620 PM CDT
TEA                      AROUND 625 PM CDT
HARRISBURG               AROUND 635 PM CDT
SHINDLER                 AROUND 635 PM CDT
CANTON                   AROUND 645 PM CDT
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG...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.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDAurora, Davison60 min
Jun 5, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHanson, Sanborn61 min
Jun 5, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMcCook62 min
Jun 5, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDKingsbury63 min
Jun 5, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMcCook, Minnehaha61 min
Jun 5, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDKingsbury30 min
Jun 5, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMiner, Sanborn61 min
Jun 5, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrookings29 min
Jun 5, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrookings, Moody31 min
Jun 5, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLake, Miner46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.