Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 38, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Aug 7, 2000, 8:32 PM CDT for Bon Homme County, Yankton County, South Dakota. It was in force for 28 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
- Aug 7, 2000, 8:32 PM CDT (01:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bon Homme County, SD, Yankton County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 8:34 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Scotland, SD |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 3267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFSD 080135 COR TORFSD SDC009-135-080200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTION ADDED LESTERVILLE TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 834 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN BON HOMME COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA YANKTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 832 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF TABOR...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF YANKTON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LESTERVILLE AROUND 840 PM CDT UTICA AROUND 840 PM CDT MAYFIELD AROUND 850 PM CDT VOLIN AROUND 855 PM CDT THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. GO TO THE BASEMENT. IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM' ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Douglas | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha, Turner | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Davison | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Moody | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Charles Mix | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 27 min |
| Aug 7, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 28 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.