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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1998, 7:25 PM CDT for Dakota County, Dixon County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 min. 3 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
- Jun 23, 1998, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1998, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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 23, 7:45 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Wakefield, NE | |
| Jun 23, 7:48 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Emerson, NE | |
| Jun 23, 8:24 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Dakota City, NE |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 353 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
- 1938 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1197 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
734 WFUS1 KFSD 240028 RRA TORFSD NEC043-051-240115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 725 PM CDT TUE JUN 23 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DAKOTA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NEBRASKA SOUTHEASTERN DIXON COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NEBRASKA * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 723 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 29 MILES NORTHEAST OF NORFOLK OR 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAKEFIELD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WAKEFIELD AROUND 730 PM CDT EMERSON AROUND 735 PM CDT WATERBURY AROUND 755 PM CDT HUBBARD AROUND 755 PM CDT THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR DAKOTA COUNTY. 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. MG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Dakota | 34 min |
| Jun 23, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dixon | 49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.