Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1999, 3:00 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Plymouth County, Iowa. It was in force for 45 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 4, 1999, 3:00 AM CDT (08:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1999, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherokee County, IA, Plymouth County, IA
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 4, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 830 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1167 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 4, 1:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 1:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 145 AM CDT FRI JUN 4 1999 AN EARLY AFD IN CASE THE REST OF THIS NIGHT TURNS BUSIER. LLJ CONTINUES TO ASSIST IN MASSIVE WAA AND MOISTURE CONVERGENCE HELPING TO BRING RISK OF TSTMS AND SVR WX THE NXT FEW DAYS. ALTHOUGH EYES HAVE BEEN ON SAT NGT FOR SVR WX DUE TO UPPER LVL TROUGH MOVING INTO THE PLAINS...FRI NGT HAS SNEAKED IN FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF TSTMS AND RISK OF SVR WX. I CANNOT REMEMBER THE LAST TIME IVE SEEN OVERNIGHT CAPES AS HIGH AS FCST BY THE ETA FOR FRI NGT. ACCORDING TO THE ETA 850 MB MOISTURE CONVERGENCE ALONG WITH 50 KNOT LLJ TO HELP SET BOUNDARY ALONG THE SD/NE BORDER INTO NW IA. WHILE CAP/CIN WL DOMINATE FURTHER S...TSTMS SHOULD EASILY BREAK CAP BETWEEN I-29 AND SRN BOUNDARIES OF THE CWA GIVEN THE STRENGTH OF THE BOUNDARY. SPC PLACES MODERATE RISK OF SVR WX FOR ALL OF THE FSD CWA...AND WL GET NO ARGUMENT HERE. WHILE ABV SCENERIO IS ACCORDING TO ETA AND THE ONE I WL BE PROMOTING IN THE FCST PKG...FEEL PRUDENT TO MENTION THAT THE NGM IS FURTHER N IN THE BOUNDARIES AND WAA ALONG WITH CAP DOMINATING MORE OF THE SRN SECTIONS OF THE CWA. REGARDLESS OF EITHER MDL SOLN THREAT FOR AN EVEN MORE SIGNIFICANT SVR WX EVENT FRI NGT SOMWHERE IN THE CWA WL BE AT WORK. AN EARLY SVR WX OUTLOOK FOR THE MODERATE RISK WHICH WL BE ISSUED ONCE THE CURRENT WATCH FOR THU NGT WX EXPIRES. .FSD...NONE BR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Gregory | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Gregory | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Gregory | 52 min |
| Jun 4, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Charles Mix | 31 min |
| Jun 4, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 4:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Yankton | 30 min |
| Jun 4, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 37 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999
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.