Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT for Woodbury County, Iowa. It was in force for 30 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
- Jun 3, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Woodbury County, IA
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 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, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 040216 SVRFSD IAC193-040245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 915 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WOODBURY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 915 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOVILLE TO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SERGEANT BLUFF...OR FROM 14 MILES EAST OF SIOUX CITY TO 11 MILES SOUTH OF SIOUX CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... MOVILLE...SALIX AROUND 920 PM CDT SLOAN AROUND 930 PM CDT ANTHON...HORNICK AROUND 940 PM CDT * AT 911 PM SIOUX CITY AIRPORT REPORTED A 74 MPH WIND GUST. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WESATHER 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, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 31 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 |
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.