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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

August 7, 2000Gregory County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2000, 6:16 PM CDT for Gregory County, South Dakota. It was in force for 44 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 7, 2000, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Gregory County, SD

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Aug 7, 6:20 PM CDTHail 0.88Gregory, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 7, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2000-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 42 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2000-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-242 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1640 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
265 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KFSD 072316
SVRFSD
SDC053-080000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
616 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GREGORY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 616 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BURKE...OR ABOUT 30 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF WINNER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GREGORY AROUND 625 PM CDT
  BURKE AROUND 635 PM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINS AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix, Gregory51 min
Aug 7, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBon Homme24 min
Aug 7, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBon Homme30 min
Aug 7, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDYankton33 min
Aug 7, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHutchinson, Turner40 min
Aug 7, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMcCook, Minnehaha, Turner29 min
Aug 7, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHutchinson43 min
Aug 7, 6:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMcCook51 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.