Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

February 25, 2000Clay County, Turner County, South Dakota

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Feb 25, 4:55 PM CSTThunderstorm Wind 52 EWakonda, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-02-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-02-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 25, 4:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrule14 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.