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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 9, 2001Brule County, Charles Mix County, Gregory County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2001, 10:13 PM CDT for Brule County, Charles Mix County, Gregory County, South Dakota. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 2001, 10:13 PM CDT (03:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2001, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Brule County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Gregory County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 194 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:13 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 9, 10:26 PM CDTTornado F0Kimball, SDA brief tornado caused no reported damage.
Jun 9, 10:30 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EKimball, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 9, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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 2001-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1849 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 2001-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 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
1849 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1555 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KFSD 100315
SVRFSD
SDC015-023-053-100400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1013 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BRULE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
  WESTERN CHARLES MIX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
  GREGORY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1013 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF KIMBALL TO
  6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BURKE...OR FROM 23 MILES NORTH OF CHAMBERLAIN
  TO 29 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WINNER...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  CHAMBERLAIN AROUND 1020 PM CDT
  HERRICK AROUND 1025 PM CDT
  KIMBALL AROUND 1030 PM CDT
  BONESTEEL AROUND 1035 PM CDT
  PLATTE AROUND 1040 PM CDT

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMA6GING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4394 9929 4306 9948 4302 9878 4393 9883

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrule, Charles Mix, Gregory38 min
Jun 9, 10:28 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDAurora, Brule32 min
Jun 9, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBeadle31 min
Jun 9, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDavison, Douglas34 min
Jun 9, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSanborn34 min
Jun 9, 11:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDKingsbury, Miner23 min
Jun 9, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHanson, McCook30 min
Jun 9, 11:55 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDKingsbury, Lake, Miner35 min
Jun 10, 12:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLake, Miner30 min
Jun 10, 12:07 AM CDTTornado WarningFSDMcCook38 min
Jun 10, 12:15 AM CDTTornado WarningFSDBrookings, Lake, Moody30 min
Jun 10, 12:17 AM CDTTornado WarningFSDMinnehaha43 min
Jun 10, 12:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMoody22 min
Jun 10, 12:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln, Minnehaha, Turner48 min
Jun 10, 12:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMoody37 min
Jun 10, 1:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion27 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.