Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2000, 1:11 AM CDT for Minnehaha County, South Dakota. It was in force for 34 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
- Aug 6, 2000, 1:11 AM CDT (06:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2000, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Minnehaha County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 1:15 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Colton, 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 nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1907 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1173 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
540 WUUS53 KFSD 060611 SVRFSD SDC099-060645- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 111 AM CDT SUN AUG 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MINNEHAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 145 AM CDT * AT 111 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLTON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MADISON... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CROOKS AROUND 125 AM CDT BALTIC...DELL RAPIDS AROUND 130 AM CDT THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle, Jerauld | 41 min |
| Aug 5, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sanborn | 45 min |
| Aug 5, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle, Miner | 46 min |
| Aug 5, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora, Jerauld | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora, Davison | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, McCook, Miner | 41 min |
| Aug 6, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora, Davison | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook, Turner | 27 min |
| Aug 6, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hanson, Hutchinson | 48 min |
| Aug 6, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha, Turner | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Union | 45 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.