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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 25, 2000O'Brien County, Sioux County, Iowa

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2000, 10:03 PM CDT for O'Brien County, Sioux County, Iowa. It was in force for 42 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, 10:03 PM CDT (03:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2000, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Whole counties

Counties O'Brien County, IA, Sioux County, IA

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 87 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 25, 10:30 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Rock Vly, IA	Large hail caused crop damage and damage to vehicles and windows, but the amount of damage was not determined.

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, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 2265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1234 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KFSD 260304
SVRFSD
IAC141-167-260345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1003 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  O'BRIEN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA
  SIOUX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 1003 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF HARTLEY TO
  4 MILES EAST OF FAIRVIEW...OR FROM 14 MILES WEST OF SPIRIT LAKE TO
  10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CANTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  BOYDEN...HULL AROUND 1010 PM CDT
  SHELDON AROUND 1015 PM CDT
  HARTLEY...SANBORN AROUND 1020 PM CDT
  ARCHER...SIOUX CENTER AROUND 1025 PM CDT
  HOSPERS...PRIMGHAR AROUND 1030 PM CDT
  MAURICE AROUND 1035 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.

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 Jul 25, 9:25 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 9:25 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
925 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 2000

TSTMS BLEW UP FM EXTRM ERN SD TO SWRN MN AHEAD OF FNT AND NOW ARE
JUST SE OF FSD MOVG INTO FAR NWRN IA. CURRENT ZONE SPLIT JUST FINE AND
UPDATED EARLIER FOR WIND SHIFT AND NO TSTMS TO NW OF FNT IN SERN SD.

.FSD...NONE
RYRHOLM

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 7:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

SDZ040-055-056-061-062-260100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  SIOUX FALLS SD
720 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 2000

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED IN EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...

AT 725 PM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OVER INTO MINNESOTA
AND NO LONGER APPEAR TO BE A THREAT IN EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA.

RSR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 8:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Osceola	51 min
Jul 25, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Dickinson, Lyon, Osceola	49 min
Jul 25, 10:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Dickinson	35 min
Jul 25, 10:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lyon, Sioux	43 min
Jul 25, 10:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Clay	47 min
Jul 25, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Osceola	25 min
Jul 25, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	O'Brien	24 min
Jul 25, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Sioux	31 min
Jul 25, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	O'Brien	27 min
Jul 25, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Buena Vista, Clay	26 min
Jul 25, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Cherokee	28 min
Jul 25, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Buena Vista	43 min
Jul 25, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Cherokee	31 min
Jul 26, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Buena Vista	32 min
Jul 26, 1:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay	22 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.