Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2000, 9:14 AM CDT for Kingsbury County, South Dakota. It was in force for 31 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
- May 17, 2000, 9:14 AM CDT (14:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2000, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kingsbury County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:17 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 17, 9:38 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Hetland, 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 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
836 WUUS53 KFSD 171414 SVRFSD SDC077-171445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 914 AM CDT WED MAY 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN KINGSBURY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 945 AM CDT * AT 913 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF LAKE PRESTON...OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HETLAND AROUND 925 AM CDT THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN SIOUX FALLS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 8:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Kingsbury, Miner | 32 min |
| May 17, 8:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 32 min |
| May 17, 9:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings | 44 min |
| May 17, 10:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings | 51 min |
| May 17, 10:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 29 min |
| May 17, 10:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings, Kingsbury | 36 min |
| May 17, 11:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, Miner | 37 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.