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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

August 10, 1996Murray County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Aug 10, 1996, 3:36 PM CDT for Murray County, Minnesota. It was in force for 49 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 10, 1996, 3:36 PM CDT (20:36 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 1996, 4:25 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Murray County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 195 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 1996-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1164 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFSD 102037
TORFSD
MNC101-102125-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
336 PM CDT SAT AUG 10 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS SD HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 425 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA

   ...MURRAY COUNTY
 
AT 335 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY SIOUX FALLS
DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 20 MILES EAST OF PIPESTONE  OR NEAR
CHANDLER MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

AT PRESENT MOVEMENT THE TORNADO WILL BE AROUND...

LAKE WILSON              AROUND 355 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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJackson32 min
Aug 10, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDPipestone34 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.