Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2000, 9:24 PM CDT for Lake County, Miner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 51 min. 4 reports 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
- May 15, 2000, 9:24 PM CDT (02:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lake County, SD, Miner County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 9:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Carthage, SD | Thunderstorm winds blew off part of a roof. |
| May 15, 9:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Madison, SD | |
| May 15, 9:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 M | Madison, SD | |
| May 15, 9:55 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Madison, 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1705 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFSD 160228 SVRFSD SDC079-097-160315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 924 PM CDT MON MAY 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MINER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA LAKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 924 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF RAMONA...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RAMONA...WINFRED AROUND 945 PM CDT HOWARD AROUND 950 PM CDT MADISON AROUND 955 PM CDT ORLAND AROUND 1005 PM CDT CHESTER AROUND 1010 PM CDT IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN SItOUX FALLS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 43 min |
| May 15, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 44 min |
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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.