Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 15, 2001Miner County, Sanborn County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2001, 5:30 PM CDT for Miner County, Sanborn County, South Dakota. It was in force for 30 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 15, 2001, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Miner County, SD, Sanborn County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 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 152230
SVRFSD
SDC097-111-152300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
530 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MINER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
  NORTHEASTERN SANBORN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 530 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES WEST OF CARTHAGE...OR ABOUT 18 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF HURON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CARTHAGE AROUND 545 PM CDT

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. GO INSIDE A STURDY 
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4420 9810 4407 9812 4403 9753 4419 9749

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 15, 3:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 3:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
325 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 2001

SCT ACTVTY WHICH HAS SPRD INTO WRN PART OF FCST AREA SHUD CONT TO
SPRD EWD OVER FCST AREA BEFORE ACTVTY DCRSES AND ENDS LATR THIS EVE.
DUE TO SCT NATURE OF ACTVTY AND MRGNL NATURE OF SVR THREAT WILL NOT
MENTN SVR IN ZNS. BRF DIME HAIL RPRT OR TWO PSBL SOMEWHERE IN FCST
AREA. SHUD GO MOCLR TLATR TNGT AND BE MOSUNNY FOR SAT WITH INSTBLTY
GREATLY WANED. PATTRN STARTS TO SET UP FOR CLASSIC WRLY FLOW
ALF/ERLY OR SERLY LO LVL FLOW TSTMS SAT NGT. WILL LEAVE OUT FOR NOW
AND PUT IN FOR SUN MAINLY FOR CONTINUITY FROM ERYR EXTNDED...BUT
THIS ACTVTY SHUD TEND TO BE NOCTURNAL FOR A CPL DAYS. EXTNDED CONTS
TO LOOK LIKE SHWRS/TSTMS CHC THRU WED THEN DRY THU AND FRI. TEMPS
WILL NEVER GET OO HOT BEFORE COOLNG AGN TUE. IN MEANTIME GUIDNCE NOT
BAD...WILL GO A LTL COOLR ON LOWS.

.FSD...NONEh
WILLIAMS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 2:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
251 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0600 PM    LAKE PRESTON              SD   WIND DAMAGE
06/13/01   KINGSBURY                      TREES TWO FEET IN
                                          DIAMETER DOWN. REPORTED
                                          BY PUBLIC.

0700 PM    LARCHWOOD                 IA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/13/01   LYON                           REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0820 PM    3 W SHELDON               IA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/13/01   SIOUX                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0835 PM    2 W SALIX                 IA   WIND DAMAGE
06/13/01   WOODBURY                       UP TO 2 TREE LIMBS
                                          DOWN. REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0838 PM    3 ESE SHELDON             IA   WIND DAMAGE
06/13/01   OBRIEN                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
                                          TREES UP TO THREE FEET
                                          IN DIAMETER DOWN.

0915 PM    5 E MELVIN                IA   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/13/01   OSCEOLA                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

1000 PM    3 S OCHEYEDAN             IA   WIND DAMAGE
06/13/01   OSCEOLA                        TREES UP TO TWO FEET IN
                                          DIAMETER DOWN. REPORTED
                                          BY PUBLIC.

1000 PM    WINDOM                    MN   WIND DAMAGE
06/13/01   COTTONWOOD                     REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
                                          SEVERE HIGH WIND DAMAGE
                                          TO LUMBER YARD SOUTH
                                          WALL DOWN AND ROOF
                                          PARTLY DESTROYED.

1130 PM    2 S STORM LAKE            IA   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/13/01   BUENA VISTA                    EVENT DURATION 30
                                          MINUTES. REPORTED BY
                                          PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jun 15, 5:06 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
506 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0430 PM    6 E YALE                  SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/15/01   BEADLE                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jun 15, 5:11 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
511 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0430 PM    2 S OSCEOLA               SD   1 INCH HAIL
06/15/01   KINGSBURY                      REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle, Kingsbury	23 min
Jun 15, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lake, Moody	35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2001 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.