Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2002, 7:27 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Minnesota. It was in force for 33 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2002, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:37 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Lake Benton, MN | |
| May 5, 7:50 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Arco, MN |
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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFSD 060027 SVRFSD MNC081-060100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 724 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 724 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDCIATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE BENTON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF FLANDREAU...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. AT 720 PM CDT GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED 2 MILE SOUTH OF ELTON SOUTH DAKOTA. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAKE BENTON AROUND 735 PM CDT TYLER AROUND 745 PM CDT IVANHOE AROUND 750 PM CDT THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEAST BROOKINGS AND NORTHERN MOODY COUNTIES IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 13 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 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.