Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 2000, 4:53 PM CST for Clay County, Turner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 22 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
- Feb 25, 2000, 4:53 PM CST (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2000, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, SD, Turner County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 4:55 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Wakonda, 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1063 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
508 WUUS53 KFSD 252253 SVRFSD SDC027-125-252315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 453 PM CST FRI FEB 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA TURNER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 515 PM CST * AT 452 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF CENTERVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BERESFORD...MOVING NORTH AT 55 MPH. A SCOND SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF HURLEY ALSO MOVING NORTH AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... VIBORG...PARKER AROUND 505 PM CST DAVIS...HURLEY AROUND 510 PM CST THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 4:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brule | 14 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2000Every 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.