Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT for Rock County, Minnesota. It was in force for 35 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 19, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1996, 6:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rock County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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 19, 6:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Magnolia, 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 219 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 192301 SVRFSD MNC133-192335- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 600 PM CDT WED JUN 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS SD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 635 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ...SOUTHERN ROCK COUNTY AT 558 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY SIOUX FALLS DOPPLER RADAR 10 MILES EAST OF SIOUX FALLS OR 8 MILES WEST OF BEAVER CREEK MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... BRUCE AROUND 610 PM CDT HILLS AROUND 615 PM CDT BEAVER CREEK AROUND 615 PM CDT STEEN AROUND 625 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. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN AND OFTEN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM CDT. CHAPMAN
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, 5:57 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
SDZ039-040-053>056-059>062-063>071-192350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 600 PM CDT WED JUN 19 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 640 CANCELED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA HAS BEEN CANCELED AT 6 PM CDT. ALL SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED TO THE EAST OF SOUTH DAKOTA BUT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY STILL LINGER UNTIL ABOUT 7 PM. KOSCIELSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Pipestone | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Nobles, Rock | 30 min |
| Jun 19, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Nobles, Rock | 30 min |
| Jun 19, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Nobles | 34 min |
| Jun 19, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Rock | 33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.