Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

May 11, 2000Hutchinson County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2000, 4:15 AM CDT for Hutchinson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 30 min. 2 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: May 11, 2000, 4:15 AM CDT (09:15 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2000, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Whole counties

County Hutchinson County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:18 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
May 11, 4:40 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Kaylor, SD	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, and blew over two grain bins.
May 11, 4:40 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Tripp, SD	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The amount of damage was not known.

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
May 11, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1405 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

379 
WUUS53 KFSD 110917
SVRFSD
SDC067-110945-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
415 AM CDT THU MAY 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HUTCHINSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 445 AM CDT

* AT 415 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES WEST OF
  PARKSTON TO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PARKSTON TO 10 MILES WEST OF
  TRIPP...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  DIMOCK...TRIPP AROUND 420 AM CDT
  PARKSTON AROUND 425 AM CDT
  CLAYTON AROUND 435 AM CDT
  MENNO AROUND 440 AM CDT
  FREEMAN AROUND 445 AM CDT

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

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN SIOUX FALLS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 2:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Gregory	42 min
May 11, 3:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Charles Mix, Gregory	42 min
May 11, 3:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Douglas	50 min
May 11, 4:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Hutchinson	24 min
May 11, 6:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.