Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

Issued

Jun 18, 2001, 3:09 AM CDT (08:09 UTC)

Expired

Jun 18, 2001, 4:00 AM CDT

In force

51 min

Issued by

NWS Sioux Falls, SD

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Beadle County, SD

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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WUUS53 KFSD 180809
SVRFSD
SDC005-180900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
309 AM CDT MON JUN 18 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BEADLE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 400 AM CDT

* AT 309 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOLSEY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF HURON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BROADLAND AROUND 315 AM CDT
  HURON AROUND 325 AM CDT
  CAVOUR AROUND 340 AM CDT
  YALE AROUND 345 AM CDT

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR 
NORTHWESTERN BEADLE COUNTY.

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

LAT...LON 4454 9864 4436 9860 4435 9790 4466 9791

NWS Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 18, 2:34 AM CDT, 35 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
230 AM CDT SUN JUN 17 2001

SLS FOR SVR TSTM WATCH 439 AND 441 ISSUED IN FIRST TWO HOURS OF THE
SHIFT. BOTH ETA AND AVN SUGGEST THAT AFT THIS MRNGS SVR WEATHER
PASSES...TIMING OF LO/FRONT WILL BE CRITICAL TODAY/THIS EVENING WITH
POPS...POSITION...AND SVR WX RISK. ETA SLOWER THAN AVN...AND IF ONE
WERE TO FOLLOW ETA QUITE A BIT OF SD WOULD BE A CONCERN FOR MDT RISK
OF SVR WX THIS AFTN. HOWEVER...PAST WEEK OR SO TIMING OF AVN HAS
BEEN MUCH BETTER AND PREFER TO CENTER THE FCST OF SVR WX THREAT FOR
SW MN AND NW IA.  MDLS SUGGEST MOISTURE WILL BE SOMEWHAT LACKING AS
DRY AIR AT THE MID LEVELS ENTERS THE CWA WITH SW FLOW...ESPECIALLY
FOR SWRN CWA. WILL LIKELY GO HIR POPS N OF I-90 AND SERN SERN CWA.
FOR REST OF THE CWA...CAP AND BAD TIMING OF CONVERGENCE WILL LIKELY
ONLY PUT A 20 POP FOR THE AFTN AND/OR EVE.

WITH MDT RISK BY SPC...IF TIME ALLOWS WILL ISSUE A SVR WX OUTLOOK
AROUND 4 TO 5 AM.  HOWEVER...WITH A LEAN TOWARD AVN SOLN HAVE OPTED
TO ONLY INCLUDE ONLY SW MN/NW IA IN THE OUTLOOK ATTM. THE DAY CREW
CAN TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT FINE TUNE WITH THE 11 AM SIG WX OUTLOOK.

FOR LATER PERIODS...WILL NOT MAKE TOO MANY DRAMATIC CHANGES AS TIME
A LIMITED RESOURCE TONIGHT. TIME TO GO WITH SVR WX IN THE CWA.
DEJA VU.

.FSD...NONE

B RUBY

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

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.