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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 13, 2001Brookings County, South Dakota; Lincoln County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 9:12 PM CDT for Brookings County, South Dakota; Lincoln County, Minnesota. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2001, 9:12 PM CDT (02:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2001, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Lincoln County, MN, Brookings County, SD

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 13, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 2001-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 298 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 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
298 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
4.3

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The text

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

723 
WUUS53 KFSD 140212
SVRFSD
MNC081-SDC011-140245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
912 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BROOKINGS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
  WESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 912 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF ELKTON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF PIPESTONE...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  IVANHOE AROUND 940 PM CDT

A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED DIME SIZED HAIL 3 MILES SOUTH OF 
ELKTON AT 907 PM CDT.

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A
STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4420 9663 4421 9637 4449 9625 4449 9654

The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion35 min
Jun 13, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln46 min
Jun 13, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion32 min
Jun 13, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha, Moody28 min
Jun 13, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha25 min
Jun 13, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion31 min
Jun 14, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBeadle, Jerauld25 min
Jun 14, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBeadle30 min
Jun 13, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln35 min
Jun 13, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln, Lyon34 min
Jun 13, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon31 min
Jun 13, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln, Pipestone29 min
Jun 13, 8:39 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln, Lyon36 min
Jun 13, 8:58 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJackson32 min
Jun 13, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDNobles16 min
Jun 13, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Nobles24 min
Jun 13, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMurray24 min
Jun 13, 9:21 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCottonwood, Jackson24 min
Jun 13, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDPipestone28 min
Jun 13, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDRock16 min
Jun 13, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCottonwood, Jackson27 min
Jun 13, 10:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDPipestone28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.