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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 12, 2001Minnehaha County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2001, 10:21 PM CDT for Minnehaha County, South Dakota. It was in force for 24 min. 1 report 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, 10:21 PM CDT (03:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Minnehaha County, SD

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 12, 10:50 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 65 MSioux Falls, 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 12, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 191 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 2001-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

197 
WFUS53 KFSD 130322
TORFSD
SDC099-130345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1021 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MINNEHAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 1021 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR 
  WALL LAKE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF SIOUX FALLS...MOVING EAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  SIOUX FALLS AROUND 1030 PM CDT
  BRANDON AROUND 1045 PM CDT

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE
COVER NOW.

LAT...LON 4362 9706 4351 9705 4352 9660 4364 9653

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDKingsbury29 min
Jun 12, 7:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMinnehaha34 min
Jun 12, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln32 min
Jun 12, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay31 min
Jun 12, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBeadle23 min
Jun 12, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMinnehaha16 min
Jun 12, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDavison, Hanson, Hutchinson45 min
Jun 12, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBeadle25 min
Jun 12, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSanborn24 min
Jun 12, 8:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBeadle, Sanborn34 min
Jun 12, 8:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDMinnehaha92 min
Jun 12, 8:29 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDHanson, Hutchinson, McCook31 min
Jun 12, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDKingsbury, Miner50 min
Jun 12, 8:50 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDKingsbury, Miner25 min
Jun 12, 8:55 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMcCook35 min
Jun 12, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMcCook45 min
Jun 12, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrookings43 min
Jun 12, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDKingsbury38 min
Jun 12, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha38 min
Jun 12, 9:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDLincoln, Minnehaha3 hr
Jun 12, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDKingsbury33 min
Jun 12, 10:03 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMinnehaha27 min
Jun 12, 10:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLake35 min
Jun 12, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMiner34 min
Jun 12, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha30 min
Jun 12, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDKingsbury48 min
Jun 12, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMiner35 min
Jun 12, 10:42 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMinnehaha33 min
Jun 12, 10:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha29 min
Jun 12, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLake35 min
Jun 12, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMiner16 min
Jun 12, 11:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLake, Moody28 min
Jun 13, 12:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha36 min
Jun 13, 12:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMoody35 min
Jun 13, 12:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha33 min
Jun 13, 12:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDMinnehaha, Moody2 hr
Jun 13, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrule46 min
Jun 13, 1:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrule32 min
Jun 13, 2:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDGregory30 min
Jun 13, 2:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDJerauld37 min
Jun 13, 2:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrule, Charles Mix, Gregory35 min
Jun 13, 2:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBeadle24 min
Jun 13, 3:02 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDAurora, Beadle, Brule, Jerauld3 hr
Jun 13, 5:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHanson, Miner, Sanborn40 min
Jun 13, 5:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDavison40 min
Jun 13, 6:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLake, Miner44 min
Jun 13, 7:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrookings, Lake, Moody29 min
Jun 13, 7:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMcCook, Minnehaha25 min
Jun 13, 7:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrookings32 min
Jun 13, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBeadle25 min
Jun 13, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrookings24 min
Jun 13, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDKingsbury33 min
Jun 13, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMoody24 min
Jun 13, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay, Lincoln, Union49 min
Jun 13, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMoody32 min
Jun 13, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrookings34 min
Jun 13, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln, Union31 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.