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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 3, 2000Aurora County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2000, 11:23 PM CDT for Aurora County, South Dakota. It was in force for 37 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, 11:23 PM CDT (04:23 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Aurora County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:27 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 3, 11:25 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 69 EWhite Lake, SDThunderstorm winds partly or totally destroyed numerous farm buildings, moved a large semi-truck 30 feet, blew another semi-truck into a ditch, caused widespread tree and power line damage including 2 foot diameter trees blown down, and damaged homes and vehic
Jun 3, 11:25 PM CDTHail 0.88White Lake, SDLarge hail accumulated to a depth of 3 to 5 inches. The hail totally destroyed some crops.

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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 2000-06-04Temperature 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 2000-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 283 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KFSD 040423
SVRFSD
SDC003-040500-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1123 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  AURORA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT

* AT 1123 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF PLANKINTON...OR ABOUT 28
  MILES EAST OF CHAMBERLAIN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PLANKINTON AROUND 1150 PM 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.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay, Turner, Yankton34 min
Jun 3, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBon Homme23 min
Jun 3, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay29 min
Jun 3, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay25 min
Jun 3, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion33 min
Jun 3, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay32 min
Jun 3, 8:21 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDUnion24 min
Jun 3, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion31 min
Jun 3, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDJerauld35 min
Jun 3, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDAurora, Davison31 min
Jun 4, 12:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDavison, Hutchinson34 min
Jun 4, 12:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBon Homme, Yankton34 min
Jun 4, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay, Lincoln, Union31 min
Jun 4, 1:27 AM CDTTornado WarningFSDYankton18 min
Jun 4, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay35 min
Jun 4, 2:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion28 min
Jun 4, 2:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion31 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.