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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2001, 8:27 PM CDT for Lyon County, Iowa. It was in force for 48 min. 3 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, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lyon County, IA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 8:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Rock Rapids, IA | |
| Jun 12, 9:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | George, IA | |
| Jun 12, 9:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | George, IA | Thunderstorm winds knocked down power poles and lines, causing power outages in Lyon and Osceola Counties. |
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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 237 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.
543 WFUS53 KFSD 130127 TORFSD IAC119-130215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 827 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LYON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 826 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF LESTER...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROCK RAPIDS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN IN... RURAL AREAS OF LYON COUNTY NEAR THE MINNESOTA STATE LINE... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 4350 9637 4343 9640 4342 9592 4350 9592
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 41 min |
| Jun 12, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sioux | 11 min |
| Jun 12, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | O'Brien, Osceola | 43 min |
| Jun 12, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lyon | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | O'Brien, Osceola | 37 min |
| Jun 12, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dickinson | 23 min |
| Jun 12, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Osceola | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Osceola | 41 min |
| Jun 12, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dickinson | 51 min |
| Jun 12, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Dickinson | 29 min |
| Jun 12, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lyon, Osceola | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 9:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Osceola | 95 min |
| Jun 12, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Dickinson | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Osceola | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 23 min |
| Jun 12, 9:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Lyon | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 10:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Osceola | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 10:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Dickinson | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dickinson | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon, Sioux | 31 min |
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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.