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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 19, 1996Dickinson County, Iowa

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1996, 6:31 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Iowa. It was in force for 34 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, 6:31 PM CDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1996, 7:05 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Dickinson County, IA

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 205 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1996-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1996-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
519 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 34 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 1:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDKingsbury33 min
Jun 19, 1:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDKingsbury49 min
Jun 19, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrookings33 min
Jun 19, 2:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix34 min
Jun 19, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrookings, Lake33 min
Jun 19, 3:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix28 min
Jun 19, 3:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMoody46 min
Jun 19, 3:38 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBon Homme, Charles Mix32 min
Jun 19, 3:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMoody46 min
Jun 19, 4:02 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDHutchinson33 min
Jun 19, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha34 min
Jun 19, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDOsceola33 min
Jun 19, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon33 min
Jun 19, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDNobles, Rock30 min
Jun 19, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDNobles, Rock30 min
Jun 19, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDNobles34 min
Jun 19, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDRock35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 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.