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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 5, 1996Pipestone County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1996, 6:50 PM CDT for Pipestone County, Minnesota. It was in force for 35 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 5, 1996, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1996, 7:25 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Pipestone County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1996-06-05Temperature 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1996-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 182 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1132 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
207 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 052350
TORFSD
MNC117-060025-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
650 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS SD HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 725 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA

   ...NORTHERN PIPESTONE COUNTY
 
AT 648 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC 13 MILES
NORTHWEST OF PIPESTONE  OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF CAZENOVIA MOVING
EAST AT 40 MPH.

AT PRESENT MOVEMENT THE TORNADO WILL BE AROUND...
CAZENOVIA                AROUND 700 PM CDT
HOLLAND                  AROUND 710 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.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR
LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

MBG
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 5:31 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln49 min
Jun 5, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon32 min
Jun 5, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMurray65 min
Jun 5, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln, Pipestone31 min
Jun 5, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon, Murray47 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.