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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 5, 1996Lincoln County, Pipestone County, Minnesota; Brookings County, Moody County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 6:34 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Pipestone County, Minnesota; Brookings County, Moody County, South Dakota. It was in force for 31 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, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1996, 7:05 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lincoln County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Brookings County, SD, Moody County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 1132 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 207 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 052335
SVRFSD
MNC081-117-SDC011-101-060005-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS SD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 705 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

   ...SOUTHEASTERN BROOKINGS COUNTY
   ...NORTHEASTERN MOODY COUNTY

IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA

   ...SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY
   ...NORTHWESTERN PIPESTONE COUNTY
 
AT 630 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY SIOUX FALLS
DOPPLER RADAR 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BROOKINGS OR 4 MILES WEST OF
ELKTON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
ELKTON                   AROUND 635 PM CDT
LAKE BENTON              AROUND 645 PM CDT
VERDI                    AROUND 645 PM CDT
AIRLIE                   AROUND 650 PM CDT
CAZENOVIA                AROUND 650 PM CDT
HOLLAND                  AROUND 700 PM CDT
PIPESTONE                AROUND 700 PM CDT
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTIONB MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE TO NO ADVANCE
WARNING.

MBG

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, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Murray	65 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
Jun 5, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Aurora, Davison	60 min
Jun 5, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Hanson, Sanborn	61 min
Jun 5, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	McCook	62 min
Jun 5, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	63 min
Jun 5, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	McCook, Minnehaha	61 min
Jun 5, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	30 min
Jun 5, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Miner, Sanborn	61 min
Jun 5, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings	29 min
Jun 5, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln	31 min
Jun 5, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lake, Miner	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1996 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1996 Every 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.