Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1996, 3:49 PM CDT for Lincoln County, South Dakota. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports 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
- Jul 1, 1996, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 1996, 4:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 3:50 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Harrisburg, SD | |
| Jul 1, 4:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Canton, SD |
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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 2113 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 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 012049 SVRFSD SDC083-012120- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 349 PM CDT MON JUL 1 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS SD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 420 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA ...LINCOLN COUNTY AT 347 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY SIOUX FALLS DOPPLER RADAR 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS NEAR LENNOX. MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... WORTHING AROUND 400 PM CDT HARRISBURG AROUND 405 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. JCV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 33 min |
| Jul 1, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 30 min |
| Jul 1, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 31 min |
| Jul 1, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 43 min |
| Jul 1, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 52 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.