Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 6:38 PM CDT for Lyon County, Murray County, Minnesota. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1996, 7:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 6:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Balaton, MN |
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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 188 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSD 052338 SVRFSD MNC083-101-060025- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 638 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS SD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 725 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ...SOUTHERN LYON COUNTY ...NORTHERN MURRAY COUNTY AT 635 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY SIOUX FALLS DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 18 MILES SOUTH OF MARSHALL OR 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GARVIN MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... GARVIN AROUND 640 PM CDT TRACY AROUND 650 PM CDT DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR BALATON AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL NEAR FLORENCE AT 640 PM CDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FORl YOUR PROTECTION 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 OR NO 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, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Pipestone | 31 min |
| Jun 5, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Pipestone | 35 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.