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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 11, 2000Ida County, Iowa

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2000, 10:04 PM CDT for Ida County, Iowa. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report 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
Jul 11, 2000, 10:04 PM CDT (03:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Ida County, IA

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:04 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 11, 10:15 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 57 EHolstein, IA

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 11, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 138 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3053 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3053 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1183 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
5.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KFSD 120305
SVRFSD
IAC093-120330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1004 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  IDA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 1004 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS FROM 4 MILES 
  NORTH OF HOLSTEIN TO 7 MILES WEST OF BATTLE CREEK...OR FROM 14 
  MILES NORTH OF IDA GROVE TO 13 MILES WEST OF IDA GROVE...MOVING 
  EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  BATTLE CREEK AROUND 1010 PM CDT
  GALVA AROUND 1015 PM CDT
  IDA GROVE AROUND 1020 PM CDT
  ARTHUR AROUND 1030 PM CDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A
STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon23 min
Jul 11, 8:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDOsceola24 min
Jul 11, 8:52 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPlymouth23 min
Jul 11, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDWoodbury35 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.