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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 9, 2000Kingsbury County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2000, 7:14 PM CDT for Kingsbury County, South Dakota. It was in force for 91 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
Jul 9, 2000, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2000, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
91 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Kingsbury County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 00:00Z on 2000-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 383 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2000-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -24 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
383 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1226 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.7

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KFSD 100015
FFWFSD
SDC077-100145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
714 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* URBAN FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  KINGSBURY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 712 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...MOVING INTO WESTERN KINGSBURY
  COUNTY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES...CAN BE EXPECTED WITH
  THESE STORMS THROUGH 845 PM AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 20 MPH.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...
COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND
OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.