Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2001, 7:11 PM CDT for Minnehaha County, South Dakota. It was in force for 34 min. 13 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 12, 2001, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Minnehaha County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 3 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:11 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Sioux Falls, SD | |
| Jun 12, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Garretson, SD | A brief tornado caused no reported damage or injuries. |
| Jun 12, 7:13 PM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Sioux Falls, SD | |
| Jun 12, 7:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Sioux Falls, SD | |
| Jun 12, 7:20 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Sioux Falls, SD | |
| Jun 12, 7:23 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Sioux Falls, SD | |
| Jun 12, 7:24 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Sioux Falls, SD | |
| Jun 12, 7:25 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Sioux Falls, SD | |
| Jun 12, 7:29 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Sioux Falls, SD | |
| Jun 12, 7:31 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 69 E | Sioux Falls, SD | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a healthy 8 inch diameter tree blown down. |
| Jun 12, 7:33 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Brandon, SD | |
| Jun 12, 7:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Sioux Falls, SD | Large hail severely damaged vehicles and also broke windows and damaged siding in some buildings. The hail was reported at several places around the city, but the damage was greatest in the southeast part of Sioux Falls.One insurance company expected about thr |
| Jun 12, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Sioux Falls, SD | A tornado blew down trees. |
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 197 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1925 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
882 WFUS53 KFSD 130011 TORFSD SDC099-130045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 711 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MINNEHAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 710 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER SIOUX FALLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED ON 41ST ST. AND MINNESOTA AVE AT 710 PM CDT. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... GARRETSON AROUND 745 PM CDT THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 4355 9693 4350 9671 4362 9646 4382 9652
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 29 min |
| Jun 12, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle | 23 min |
| Jun 12, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 16 min |
| Jun 12, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Davison, Hanson, Hutchinson | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle | 25 min |
| Jun 12, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sanborn | 24 min |
| Jun 12, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Beadle, Sanborn | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 8:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 92 min |
| Jun 12, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Hanson, Hutchinson, McCook | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Kingsbury, Miner | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Kingsbury, Miner | 25 min |
| Jun 12, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | McCook | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | McCook | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings | 43 min |
| Jun 12, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 38 min |
| Jun 12, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 38 min |
| Jun 12, 9:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 10:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 27 min |
| Jun 12, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Miner | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 10:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 24 min |
| Jun 12, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Miner | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 10:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 29 min |
| Jun 12, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Miner | 16 min |
| Jun 12, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, Moody | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Moody | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 12:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Minnehaha, Moody | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brule | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brule | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Gregory | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Jerauld | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 2:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brule, Charles Mix, Gregory | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 3:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Brule, Jerauld | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 5:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hanson, Miner, Sanborn | 40 min |
| Jun 13, 5:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Davison | 40 min |
| Jun 13, 6:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, Miner | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 7:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings, Lake, Moody | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 7:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook, Minnehaha | 25 min |
| Jun 13, 7:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle | 25 min |
| Jun 13, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Moody | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Lincoln, Union | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Moody | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Union | 31 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.