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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Aberdeen, SD

August 4, 2000Faulk County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Aug 4, 2000, 10:31 PM CDT for Faulk County, South Dakota. It was in force for 44 min. 6 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: Aug 4, 2000, 10:31 PM CDT (03:31 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2000, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Whole counties

County Faulk County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:33 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
Aug 4, 11:00 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Faulkton, SD	A tornado touched down on the east side of Faulkton and tipped over and severely damaged the new press box and bleachers at the ball field. The tornado also knocked down some light poles and destroyed a hanger, an airplane, and a gyrocopter at the airport.
Aug 4, 11:00 PM CDT	Hail 4.5	Faulkton, SD	Softball hail broke windows and caused extensive damage to a few vehicles and homes west of Faulkton.
Aug 4, 11:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 61 E	Faulkton, SD
Aug 4, 11:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70 E	Faulkton, SD	Eighty mph winds brought a large tree down onto a mobile home at Lake Faulkton causing severe damage. Also, many other trees were downed at Lake Faulkton and some buildings were destroyed.
Aug 4, 11:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 61 E	Faulkton, SD	Seventy mph winds downed several trees east of Faulkton.
Aug 4, 11:20 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70 E	Faulkton, SD	Eighty mph winds brought down several trees and many tree branches throughout Faulkton.

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
Aug 4, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Aug 4, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 62 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: 2354 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1004 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 6.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KABR 050333
TORABR

SDC049-050415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
1031 PM CDT FRI AUG 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FAULK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 1031 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF FAULKTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  FAULKTON AROUND 1040 PM CDT
  MIRANDA AROUND 1100 PM CDT

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING
SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO TAKE SHELTER NOW!

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO TSHE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
ABERDEEN.

$$

LAT...LON 4518 9912 4508 9927 4489 9903 4495 9874

HARDING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Dewey	29 min
Aug 4, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Dewey, Stanley, Sully	56 min
Aug 4, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Campbell, Walworth	57 min
Aug 4, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes	53 min
Aug 4, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Sully	27 min
Aug 4, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Edmunds	55 min
Aug 4, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Hughes, Hyde, Lyman	60 min
Aug 4, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Stanley	60 min
Aug 4, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Potter, Walworth	42 min
Aug 4, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Edmunds	47 min
Aug 4, 9:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Hughes	31 min
Aug 4, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes	31 min
Aug 4, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Hyde, Lyman	65 min
Aug 4, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk	49 min
Aug 4, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk	44 min
Aug 4, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Lyman	46 min
Aug 4, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Spink	48 min
Aug 5, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand	30 min
Aug 5, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand	33 min
Aug 5, 2:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk	67 min
Aug 5, 3:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand	59 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.