Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 28, 2002Beadle County, Kingsbury County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2002, 12:57 PM CDT for Beadle County, Kingsbury County, South Dakota. It was in force for 33 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 2002, 12:57 PM CDT (17:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2002, 1:30 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Beadle County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:58 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
Jul 28, 1:05 PM CDTHail 0.75Iroquois, SD
Jul 28, 1:11 PM CDTHail 0.75Manchester, 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 nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 71 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 12:00Z on 2002-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 99 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2002-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 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
99 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-249 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1295 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
255 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.4

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The text

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

969 
WUUS53 KFSD 281757
SVRFSD
SDC005-077-281830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1255 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 130 PM CDT

* AT 1255 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED OVER
  IROQUOIS...OR ABOUT 21 MILES EAST OF HURON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN IN...
RURAL BEADLE THROUGH 110 PM
RURAL KINGSBURY COUNTY THROUGH 130 PM CDT

LAT...LON 4439 9801 4427 9783 4448 9745 4453 9780

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 12:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBeadle38 min
Jul 28, 1:23 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDKingsbury37 min
Jul 28, 1:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSanborn35 min
Jul 28, 1:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMiner50 min
Jul 28, 1:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBrookings, Kingsbury41 min
Jul 28, 2:12 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBrookings48 min
Jul 28, 2:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLake, Moody39 min
Jul 28, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLake, Moody42 min
Jul 28, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrookings31 min
Jul 28, 3:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha41 min
Jul 28, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMoody33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.