Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2000, 8:44 PM CDT for Woodbury County, Iowa; Dakota County, Nebraska; Union County, South Dakota. It was in force for 31 min. 4 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, 8:44 PM CDT (01:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Woodbury County, IA, Dakota County, NE, Union County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:46 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, 8:48 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 M | North Sioux City, SD | |
| Jun 3, 9:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Jackson, NE | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. |
| Jun 3, 9:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 64 M | Sioux City Arpt, IA | |
| Jun 3, 9:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 M | Salix, IA | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn and caused other scattered damage to structures, as well as tree damage. |
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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 040145 SVRFSD IAC193-NEC043-SDC127-040215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 844 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN DAKOTA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA WESTERN WOODBURY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA EXTREME SOUTHERN UNION COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 844 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF PONCA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NORTH SIOUX CITY AROUND 850 PM CDT JACKSON AROUND 855 PM CDT SIOUX CITY...SOUTH SIOUX CITY AROUND 900 PM CDT DAKOTA CITY AROUND 905 PM CDT SERGEANT BLUFF AROUND 910 PM 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 25 min |
| Jun 3, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 30 min |
| Jun 4, 2:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 28 min |
| Jun 4, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Dixon | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dixon | 23 min |
| 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, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 29 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, 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 |
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.