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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 7, 2002Cherokee County, Iowa

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2002, 5:59 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Iowa. It was in force for 46 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
Jun 7, 2002, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2002, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cherokee County, IA

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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 nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 179 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2002-06-07Temperature 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2002-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KFSD 072259
SVRFSD
IAC035-072345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
559 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 559 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARCUS...OR ABOUT 3 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF ALTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MARCUS AROUND 610 PM CDT
  CLEGHORN AROUND 620 PM CDT
  LARRABEE AROUND 640 PM CDT

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

LAT...LON 4292 9587 4276 9587 4274 9541 4291 9540

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon, Sioux29 min
Jun 7, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSioux34 min
Jun 7, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDPlymouth43 min
Jun 7, 5:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDO'Brien26 min
Jun 7, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDickinson, Osceola42 min
Jun 7, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDO'Brien32 min
Jun 7, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDPlymouth46 min
Jun 7, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDWoodbury34 min
Jun 7, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay18 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.