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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 1, 2000Beadle County, Jerauld County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2000, 2:31 AM CDT for Beadle County, Jerauld County, South Dakota. It was in force for 29 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
Jun 1, 2000, 2:31 AM CDT (07:31 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2000, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Beadle County, SD, Jerauld County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:31 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 1, 1:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 73 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 2000-06-01Temperature 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 2000-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 340 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
2491 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
340 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
764 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KFSD 010732
SVRFSD
SDC005-073-010800-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
231 AM CDT THU JUN 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWEST BEADLE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
  NORTHWEST JERAULD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 300 AM CDT

* AT 231 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VIRGIL...OR ABOUT 30
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF HURON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  VIRGIL AROUND 255 AM 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.

REPO%RT 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 2:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBeadle22 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.