Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2000, 7:29 PM CDT for Moody County, South Dakota. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2000, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Moody County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 168 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 080030 SVRFSD SDC101-080100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 729 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MOODY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 729 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLMAN TO 13 MILES SOUTH OF TRENT...OR FROM 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MADISON TO 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIOUX FALLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... TRENT AROUND 735 PM CDT COLMAN AROUND 740 PM CDT EGAN AROUND 745 PM CDT FLANDREAU AROUND 750 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, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.