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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

May 31, 2000Lincoln County, Minnehaha County, Turner County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2000, 5:21 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Minnehaha County, Turner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 24 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
May 31, 2000, 5:21 AM CDT (10:21 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2000, 5:45 AM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lincoln County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Turner County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:22 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 204 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 2000-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2000-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -31 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1822 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

512 
WUUS53 KFSD 311022
SVRFSD
SDC083-099-125-311045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
521 AM CDT WED MAY 31 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEAST TURNER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA 
  NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA 
  EXTREME SOUTHERN MINNEHAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 545 AM CDT

* AT 521 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PARKER...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LENNOX AND TEA AROUND 530 AM CDT
  SIOUX FALLS AND WORTHING AROUND 535 AM CDT
  HARRISBURG AROUND 540 AM CDT

THIS STORM HAS IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 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.

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.