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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 31, 2001Charles Mix County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2001, 8:54 PM CDT for Charles Mix County, South Dakota. It was in force for 36 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: Jul 31, 2001, 8:54 PM CDT (01:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Charles Mix County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 31, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 2368 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1701 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.5

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The text

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

728 
WUUS53 KFSD 010154
SVRFSD
SDC023-010230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
854 PM CDT TUE JUL 31 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CHARLES MIX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 854 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARTY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
  SOUTH OF PICKSTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MARTY AROUND 910 PM CDT

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

LAT...LON 4299 9847 4288 9829 4288 9818 4300 9827

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 Jul 31, 8:45 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 8:45 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
845 PM CDT TUE JUL 31 2001

NMRS TS HAS FIRED AHD OF SFC PRE-FRONTAL TROF LINE IN CNTRL NEB.
COUPLE OF THINGS GOING ON WITH THIS IN EXPLAINING WHY THESE CELLS
ARE HAVING A HARD TIME SUSTAINING ONCE THEY CROSS THE BRDR INTO SD.
LOOKING AT THE NEW 00Z RUC40...THE JET STAYS PRETTY MUCH QS TNGT NW
OF THE RGN...LEAVING CNTRL NEB IN THIS BEST RIGHT REAR QUAD ENTRANCE
AREA. SINCE THE JET DOESN'T MOVE...SD REALLY NEVER GETS IN THIS AREA
MUCH AT ALL TNGT. IN ADDN...THE NEAR SFC WINDS HAD MUCH BETTER SPEED
CONVERGENCE IN CNTRL NEB...WANING AS IT MOVES NWD. THE FACT THAT THE
WIND SHIFT LINE HAS PROGRESSED INTO CNTRL SD GIVING DIRECTIONAL
CONVERGENCE IS ATLEAST KEEPING SOME OF THIS TS SUSTAINED. BUT IT WL
HAVE A HARD TIME MOVG MUCH FURTHER EWD TNGT DUE TO THE ANEMIC PACE
OF THE SFC BNDRY'S EWD PROGRESS. IN FACT...THE NEW RUC40 SHOWS THE
SFC BNDRY STILL JUST WEST OF A KBKX TO KYKN LINE AT 12Z WED.

ALREADY UPDATED THE ZONES EARLIER TO TAKE OUT THE HEAT ADV THIS
EVENING...AND TO FINE TUNE THE WIND SHIFT LINE WHICH IS MUCH SLOWER
THAN EARLIER ANTICIPATED. THEREFORE HAD TO TWEEK SOME LOWS ALSO WITH
THE SRLY FLOW OVR MUCH OF THE CWA CONITNUING. IT IS INTERESTING TO
SEE WWRD MOVG OUTFLOW BNDRYS ON THE KLNX 88D...WHICH KIND OF TELLS
THE STORY ON HOW FAST THE LOW LVL FRONT IS MOVG.

.FSD...NONEE
 FUHS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Charles Mix	31 min
Jul 31, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme	22 min
Jul 31, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme	32 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.