Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2000, 6:28 PM CDT for Pipestone County, Minnesota; Moody County, South Dakota. It was in force for 47 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 25, 2000, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pipestone County, MN, Moody County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 6:38 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Flandreau, SD |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 507 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFSD 252329 SVRFSD MNC117-SDC101-260015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 628 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN MOODY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA WESTERN PIPESTONE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 628 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EGAN...OR ABOUT 16 MILES WEST OF PIPESTONE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FLANDREAU AROUND 635 PM CDT IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 26 min |
| Jul 25, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Lyon | 42 min |
| Jul 25, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Lyon | 48 min |
| Jul 25, 1:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Charles Mix | 3 hr |
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.