Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2000, 7:36 PM CDT for Clay County, South Dakota. It was in force for 29 min. 2 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
- Jun 3, 2000, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2000, 8:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Hub City, SD | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| Jun 3, 8:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Vermillion, SD | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage and destroyed a picnic shelter. A few vehicles were damaged by tree debris. |
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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 2210 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 362 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 040038 COR SVRFSD SDC027-040100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTED PATHCAST... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 736 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 805 PM CDT * AT 736 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF WAKONDA TO 3 MILES WEST OF WAKONDA...OR FROM 9 MILES WEST OF BERESFORD TO 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF YANKTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN IN... RURAL CLAY COUNTY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Turner, Yankton | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme | 23 min |
| Jun 3, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Clay | 25 min |
| Jun 3, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Clay | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Union | 24 min |
| Jun 3, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Jerauld | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora | 37 min |
| Jun 3, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora, Davison | 31 min |
| Jun 4, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Davison, Hutchinson | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Yankton | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Lincoln, Union | 31 min |
| Jun 4, 1:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Yankton | 18 min |
| Jun 4, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 2:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 28 min |
| Jun 4, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 31 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.