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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

August 7, 2000Lake County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2000, 7:26 PM CDT for Lake 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 7, 2000, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Lake County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 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, 7:30 PM CDTHail 0.88Orland, 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 00:00Z on 2000-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1881 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 00:00Z on 2000-08-08The 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KFSD 080027
SVRFSD
SDC079-080100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 726 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ORLAND...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF   
MADISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. 

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MADISON AROUND 745 PM CDT
  WENTWORTH AROUND 755 PM CDT

THE STORM PRODUCED NICKEL SIZE 3 MILES EAST OF CENTER AT 722 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix, Douglas29 min
Aug 7, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln, Minnehaha, Turner44 min
Aug 7, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMcCook44 min
Aug 7, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDavison36 min
Aug 7, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHutchinson33 min
Aug 7, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMoody31 min
Aug 7, 7:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln, Minnehaha34 min
Aug 7, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBon Homme, Charles Mix48 min
Aug 7, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHutchinson42 min
Aug 7, 8:32 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBon Homme, Yankton28 min
Aug 7, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix33 min
Aug 7, 11:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion27 min
Aug 7, 11:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay32 min
Aug 7, 11:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion28 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.