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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 19, 1996Moody County, South Dakota; Pipestone County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 1996, 3:49 PM CDT for Moody County, South Dakota; Pipestone County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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: Jun 19, 1996, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1996, 4:35 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Whole counties

Counties Pipestone County, MN, Moody County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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
Jun 19, 3:50 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Pipestone, MN

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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 182 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -542 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 710 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFSD 192049
TORFSD
MNC117-SDC101-192135-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
349 PM CDT WED JUN 19 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS SD HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 435 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

   ...EASTERN MOODY COUNTY

IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA

   ...PIPESTONE COUNTY
 
AT 346 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY SIOUX FALLS
DOPPLER RADAR 9 MILES WEST OF PIPESTONE  OR 2 MILES WEST OF AIRLIE
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

AT PRESENT MOVEMENT THE TORNADO WILL BE AROUND...
WARD                     AROUND 400 PM CDT
PIPESTONE                AROUND 405 PM CDT
IHLEN                    AROUND 405 PM CDT
HATFIELD                 AROUND 415 PM CDT
TROSKY                   AROUND 415 PM CDT
WOODSTOCK                AROUND 420 PM CDT
EDGERTON                 AROUND 425 PM CDT
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE.2..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.

HARMON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	33 min
Jun 19, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	49 min
Jun 19, 2:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings	33 min
Jun 19, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Charles Mix	34 min
Jun 19, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings, Lake	33 min
Jun 19, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Charles Mix	28 min
Jun 19, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Moody	46 min
Jun 19, 3:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Charles Mix	32 min
Jun 19, 4:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Hutchinson	33 min
Jun 19, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	34 min
Jun 19, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Nobles, Rock	30 min
Jun 19, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Nobles, Rock	30 min
Jun 19, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Nobles	34 min
Jun 19, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Rock	35 min
Jun 19, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Rock	33 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, 1996 Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 1996 Every tornado warning in 1996 Tornadoes 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.