Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 356, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 2002, 9:44 PM CDT for McCook County, South Dakota. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 20, 2002, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2002, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McCook County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 10:23 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Salem, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 857 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
103 WUUS53 KFSD 210244 SVRFSD SDC087-210330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 944 PM CDT TUE AUG 20 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MCCOOK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 944 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF SPENCER...OR ABOUT 23 MILES EAST OF MITCHELL...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SALEM AROUND 955 PM CDT CANISTOTA AROUND 1005 PM CDT MONTROSE AROUND 1015 PM CDT THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. LAT...LON 4382 9760 4352 9760 4351 9714 4384 9714 BOUSTEAD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Davison, Sanborn | 43 min |
| Aug 20, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora | 35 min |
| Aug 20, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Gregory | 42 min |
| Aug 20, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hanson | 50 min |
| Aug 20, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Davison | 29 min |
| Aug 20, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, Miner | 43 min |
| Aug 20, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook | 43 min |
| Aug 20, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Hanson | 35 min |
| Aug 20, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Hanson | 35 min |
| Aug 20, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora | 43 min |
| Aug 20, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Douglas | 50 min |
| Aug 20, 9:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Aurora, Davison | 108 min |
| Aug 20, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 63 min |
| Aug 20, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson | 49 min |
| Aug 21, 7:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 119 min |
| Aug 21, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Gregory | 51 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.