Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1996, 2:47 PM CDT for Brookings County, Lake County, South Dakota. It was in force for 33 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 19, 1996, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1996, 3:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brookings County, SD, Lake County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -542 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 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 191948 SVRFSD SDC011-079-192020- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 247 PM CDT WED JUN 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS SD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 320 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA ...SOUTHWESTERN BROOKINGS COUNTY ...NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY AT 246 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY SIOUX FALLS DOPPLER RADAR 15 MILES WEST OF BROOKINGS OR 2 MILES WEST OF SINAI MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF RAMONA OR 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROOKINGS. THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... SINAI AROUND 250 PM CDT RAMONA AROUND 250 PM CDT JUNIUS AROUND 305 PM CDT NUNDA AROUND 305 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. HEITKAMP
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 9:34 AM CDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
SDZ004>006-009-010-016-017-034>037-191800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 930 AM CDT WED JUN 19 1996 ...REMAINDER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 639 EXPIRES FOR CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...THUS REMAINING PORTION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 639 HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 9AM. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE* EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THIS MORNING... AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. CHAPMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 33 min |
| Jun 19, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings | 33 min |
| Jun 19, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix | 34 min |
| Jun 19, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix | 28 min |
| Jun 19, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Moody | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Charles Mix | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Moody | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Hutchinson | 33 min |
| Jun 19, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 34 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.