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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 10, 1998Miner County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1998, 4:37 PM CDT for Miner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 48 min. 2 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 10, 1998, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1998, 5:25 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Miner County, SD

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 10, 5:20 PM CDTHail 0.75Fedora, SD
Jun 10, 5:28 PM CDTTornado F0Howard, SD

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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 1998-06-10Temperature 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1998-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 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
552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 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 102137 RRA
TORFSD
SDC097-102225-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
437 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN MINER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 525 PM CDT

* AT 434 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES NORTH OF MITCHELL  OR 9 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF FEDORA  MOTVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS CURRENTLY EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS.

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.

FUHS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDJerauld30 min
Jun 10, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDAurora, Jerauld33 min
Jun 10, 3:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSanborn48 min
Jun 10, 4:12 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDSanborn33 min
Jun 10, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDSanborn20 min
Jun 10, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSanborn33 min
Jun 10, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMiner48 min
Jun 10, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSanborn50 min
Jun 10, 5:32 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMiner33 min
Jun 10, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLake49 min
Jun 10, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMiner50 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.