Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2000, 7:12 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 33 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, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 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 00:12 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 7, 7:25 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Freeman, SD | Large hail broke windows in vehicles and buildings. The hail also caused other damage to vehicles, and to roofs and siding of buildings. The hail also damaged crops in the area, but the amount of crop 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1881 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1333 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFSD 080012 SVRFSD SDC067-080045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 712 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HUTCHINSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 712 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MENNO...OR ABOUT 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF YANKTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MENNO AROUND 725 PM CDT FREEMAN AROUND 745 PM CDT THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. 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 7, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Douglas | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha, Turner | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Davison | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Moody | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Charles Mix | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Yankton | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 27 min |
| Aug 7, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 28 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.