Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 9, 2001Kingsbury County, Miner County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2001, 11:37 PM CDT for Kingsbury County, Miner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 23 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, 11:37 PM CDT (04:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2001, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Kingsbury County, SD, Miner County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11:40 PM CDTTornado F0Carthage, SDA brief tornado caused no damage, according to the spotter who viewed it.
Jun 9, 11:45 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 ECarthage, SDThunderstorm winds blew down trees, limbs, and branches. One large limb fell onto a power line, causing a fire which destroyed a building housing a post office, food pantry, and apartment.

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
Jun 9, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 100437
SVRFSD
SDC077-097-100500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1137 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN KINGSBURY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
  MINER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT

* AT 1135 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 22 MILES WEST OF DE SMET TO 11
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF FEDORA...OR FROM 12 MILES EAST OF HURON TO 11
  MILES NORTHEAST OF MITCHELL...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  FEDORA AROUND 1140 PM CDT
  CARTHAGE...ROSWELL AROUND 1145 PM CDT
  VILAS AROUND 1150 PM CDT
  CANOVA...HOWARD AROUND 1155 PM CDT
  DE SMET AROUND MIDNIGHT CDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND.
GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4446 9785 4418 9785 4386 9785 4385 9738
          4419 9739 4445 9747

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, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrule, Charles Mix, Gregory47 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, 11:45 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.