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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

May 5, 2002Buena Vista County, Iowa

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2002, 8:48 PM CDT for Buena Vista County, Iowa. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 2002, 8:48 PM CDT (01:48 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2002, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Buena Vista County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 5, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1550 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1621 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 5.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KFSD 060148
SVRFSD
IAC021-060215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
847 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BUENA VISTA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 847 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LAKESIDE...OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF STORM
  LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SULPHER SPRINGS AROUND 855 PM
  NEWELL AROUND 900 PM CDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4268 9528 4250 9528 4248 9467 4270 9467

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Dickinson, Ida, Osceola	27 min
May 5, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Dickinson	21 min
May 5, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay	32 min
May 5, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Buena Vista, Ida	43 min
May 5, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Woodbury	42 min
May 5, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Cherokee	22 min
May 5, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay	27 min
May 5, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Ida	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 2002 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.