Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2000, 11:10 PM CDT for Jerauld County, South Dakota. It was in force for 35 min. 3 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, 11:10 PM CDT (04:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jerauld County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:12 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, 11:25 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Crow Lake, SD | |
| Jun 3, 11:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Crow Lake, SD | |
| Jun 3, 11:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 69 E | Crow Lake, SD | Thunderstorm winds caused damage to trees and farm buildings. |
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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 1149 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 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 040411 SVRFSD SDC073-040445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1110 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JERAULD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1109 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES WEST OF WESSINGTON SPRINGS...OR 28 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHAMBERLAIN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER RURAL JERAULD COUNTY. 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. 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, 7:36 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, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 31 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.