Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings, Moody | 31 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.