Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 5, 1996Lake County, Miner County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 6:44 PM CDT for Lake County, Miner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 46 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, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1996, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lake County, SD, Miner County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 127 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, Aberdeen, SD 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1996-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 182 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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 052345
SVRFSD
SDC079-097-060030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS SD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

   ...NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY
   ...NORTHEASTERN MINER COUNTY
 
AT 642 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY SIOUX FALLS
DOPPLER RADAR 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROOKINGS  OR 10 MILES WEST OF
RAMONA MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
RAMONA                   AROUND 655 PM CDT
JUNIUS                   AROUND 655 PM CDT
MADISON                  AROUND 705 PM CDT
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OFTEN DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE
OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

CHAPMAN

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, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln31 min
Jun 5, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrookings, Moody31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.