Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Aug 6, 1996, 7:53 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 32 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
- Aug 6, 1996, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 1996, 8:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hutchinson County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 2080 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSD 070054 TORFSD SDC067-070125- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 753 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS SD HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 825 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA ...HUTCHINSON COUNTY AT 753 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY SIOUX FALLS DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 25 MILES SOUTH OF MITCHELL OR 10 MILES WEST OF TSCHETTER COLONY MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. AT PRESENT MOVEMENT THE TORNADO WILL BE AROUND... TSCHETTER COLONY AROUND 820 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. & HOLMES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook, Minnehaha | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Douglas | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings | 36 min |
| Aug 6, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 36 min |
| Aug 6, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Brookings | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, Miner | 48 min |
| Aug 6, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Yankton | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Turner | 50 min |
| Aug 6, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 34 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.