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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 4, 1999Brule County, Gregory County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1999, 10:29 PM CDT for Brule County, Gregory County, South Dakota. It was in force for 31 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, 10:29 PM CDT (03:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1999, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Brule County, SD, Gregory County, SD

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 4, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

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, 8:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 8:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
840 PM CDT FRI JUN 4 1999

THIS MIGHT BE AS CLOSE TO THIS FCSTR COMES TO USING A MODEL AS IS...
BUT RUC SEEMS TO BE NAILING DEVELOPING EVENT ON THE HEAD.  VERY STG
IMPULSE SEEN ON 6.7UM WV LOOP LIFTING INTO WRN NEBRASKA...AND
ENTICING TREMENDOUS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACRS WRN NEBRASKA AND
INTO SRN SD.  RAOBS ACRS REGION ARE BASICALLY A LOADED GUN...WITH CAP
ALLOWING SFC DWPTS WELL INTO LWR 70S...STLT SOUNDER SHOWING -11 TO
-14C LI OVER MUCH OF CWA...AND FITS IN WELL WITH RAOBS.  CAPES RANGE
FM 2500-4000 J/KG...AND BRN SHEAR IS SCREAMING SUPERCELLULAR.  SCARY
ASPECT IS INDUCTION OF STG LLJ BY WRN PLAINS WAVE...ALREADY CRANKING
UP TO 40 KTS ON FBY AND MRR PROF...BUT LOW LVL BOUNDARY SEEMS TO
HAVE WORKED UP TO NR KFSD AT MID EVNG.  CANNOT DISPUTE OBS...SO
BASICALLY...WHAT HAPPENS TO CONVECTION AND SEVERITY IS PROBLEM FOR
NIGHT.  EXPECT ORGANIZED CONVECTION TO REMAIN TIED TO THE LLJ FOR
THE MOST PART...FIRST RIDING THE CAP EDGE/BOUNDARY NNEWARD THIS
EVENING...THEN MAKING THE BIG EWRD TURN AND EVENTUALLY SE BY MRNG.
ATTM...I AM FAVORING ACTIVITY TO THE NORTH OF LST NIGHT WITH THE
SLIGHTLY STRONGER CAP NOSING IN...WHICH WOULD IMPACT WRN AND NRN
CWA...9V9...HON...BKX...MML...MWM MOST.  THIS WAS GENERAL IDEA OF
PREV FCST...SO ANY CHGS SHOULD NOT BE TOO SIGNIFICANT.

THE WHOLE GAMUT OF SVR WX IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION...BUT WILL
HAVE TO BE ESPECIALLY SENSITIVE TO TRACK OF HEAVY RAINS...IF
ATTEMPT TO TRACK CLOSER TO MO RVR LATER...WITH GREATER FLOODING
POTENTIAL IN THIS REGION.

.FSD...NONE
CHAPMAN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 9:57 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 11:00 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDGregory45 min
Jun 4, 11:05 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBrule25 min
Jun 4, 11:25 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCharles Mix35 min
Jun 4, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBeadle, Jerauld47 min
Jun 5, 12:05 AM CDTTornado WarningFSDAurora, Jerauld, Sanborn25 min
Jun 5, 2:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrookings32 min
Jun 5, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion36 min
Jun 5, 4:39 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDUnion36 min
Jun 5, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln41 min
Jun 5, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay, Union37 min
Jun 5, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDTurner, Yankton50 min
Jun 5, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion34 min
Jun 5, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDUnion33 min
Jun 5, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMcCook, Minnehaha32 min
Jun 5, 5:12 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth, Sioux48 min
Jun 5, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDO'Brien30 min
Jun 5, 5:42 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCherokee, O'Brien33 min
Jun 5, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDO'Brien15 min
Jun 5, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSioux33 min
Jun 5, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDickinson, O'Brien, Osceola48 min
Jun 5, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCherokee35 min
Jun 5, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSioux41 min
Jun 5, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay31 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.