Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2003, 5:26 PM CDT for Clay County, South Dakota; Dixon County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 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 24, 2003, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dixon County, NE, Clay County, SD
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 350 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
- 413 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -377 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 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 242226
SVRFSD
NEC051-SDC027-242315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
525 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN DIXON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 525 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...13 MILES WEST OF
NEWCASTLE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF HARTINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 35 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
NEWCASTLE AROUND 535 PM CDT
VERMILLION AROUND 550 PM CDT
WAKONDA AROUND 605 PM CDT
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.
THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 4281 9715 4277 9702 4253 9700 4253 9680
4307 9682 4308 9714
$$
08The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Union | 50 min |
| Jun 23, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 44 min |
| Jun 24, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake | 39 min |
| Jun 24, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Union | 30 min |
| Jun 24, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake | 29 min |
| Jun 24, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix | 39 min |
| Jun 24, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Douglas | 37 min |
| Jun 24, 1:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora | 42 min |
| Jun 24, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Davison | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brule | 29 min |
| Jun 24, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Jerauld, Sanborn | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Davison | 30 min |
| Jun 24, 2:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hanson | 26 min |
| Jun 24, 2:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Miner | 41 min |
| Jun 24, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle | 37 min |
| Jun 24, 3:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 42 min |
| Jun 24, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Davison | 37 min |
| Jun 24, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Davison | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sanborn | 42 min |
| Jun 24, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Sanborn | 46 min |
| Jun 24, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Jerauld | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Clay | 51 min |
| Jun 24, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Sanborn | 50 min |
| Jun 24, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Jun 24, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Clay | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Beadle | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 24 min |
| Jun 24, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Turner | 51 min |
| Jun 24, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 10:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Dixon | 56 min |
| Jun 23, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dakota | 58 min |
| Jun 23, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dixon | 30 min |
| Jun 23, 11:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Dixon | 2 hr |
| Jun 23, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dakota | 28 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.