Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 248, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2000, 5:44 PM CDT for Bon Homme County, Charles Mix County, South Dakota. It was in force for 31 min. 3 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
- Aug 16, 2000, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bon Homme County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Dante, SD | |
| Aug 16, 6:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Avon, SD | Large hail broke windows and damaged the finish of a few vehicles. The hail also caused crop damage. The amount of crop damage was not known. |
| Aug 16, 6:06 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 69 E | Avon, SD | A microburst caused tree damage, including the tops of trees and numerous 6 to 12 inch diameter limbs snapped off and blown away. The winds also blew a large metal grain bin across a road and into an abandoned farmstead. |
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 16, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2119 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 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 162245 SVRFSD SDC009-023-162315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 544 PM CDT WED AUG 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME EASTERN CHARLES MIX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA BON HOMME COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 544 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF DANTE...OR ABOUT 19 MILES EAST OF PICKSTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... AVON AROUND 550 PM CDT THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Charles Mix | 37 min |
| Aug 16, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson, McCook, Turner | 35 min |
| Aug 16, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme | 27 min |
| Aug 16, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Yankton | 23 min |
| Aug 16, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Yankton | 34 min |
| Aug 16, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 48 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.