Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2003, 8:31 PM CDT for Sanborn County, South Dakota. It was in force for 44 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, 8:31 PM CDT (01:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sanborn 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 728 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 552 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFSD 250131 SVRFSD SDC111-250215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 831 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SANBORN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 831 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTH OF WOONSOCKET...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF MITCHELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WOONSOCKET AROUND 840 PM CDT ARTESIAN AROUND 845 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 HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4386 9831 4386 9786 4418 9787 4420 9832 $$ 08
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Clay, Lincoln | 46 min |
| Jun 24, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 27 min |
| Jun 24, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Douglas | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 50 min |
| Jun 24, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Turner | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Gregory | 30 min |
| Jun 24, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 54 min |
| Jun 24, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora | 42 min |
| Jun 24, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Gregory | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Jerauld | 35 min |
| Jun 24, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Turner | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Douglas | 44 min |
| Jun 24, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Davison | 55 min |
| Jun 24, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 37 min |
| Jun 24, 8:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Douglas, Gregory | 4 hr |
| Jun 24, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 31 min |
| Jun 24, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Clay | 25 min |
| Jun 24, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Jun 24, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Beadle | 46 min |
| Jun 24, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 41 min |
| Jun 24, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 50 min |
| Jun 24, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Douglas | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Turner | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brule, Jerauld | 25 min |
| Jun 24, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hanson, Hutchinson | 46 min |
| Jun 24, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Davison | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook | 43 min |
| Jun 24, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme | 41 min |
| Jun 24, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle, Kingsbury | 30 min |
| Jun 24, 9:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | McCook, Minnehaha | 43 min |
| Jun 24, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix | 34 min |
| Jun 24, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Beadle, Kingsbury | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Yankton | 42 min |
| Jun 24, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Turner | 39 min |
| Jun 24, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Hutchinson | 31 min |
| Jun 24, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook | 29 min |
| Jun 24, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 10:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 46 min |
| Jun 24, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Turner | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 10:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lake, Moody | 44 min |
| Jun 24, 10:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Turner | 26 min |
| Jun 24, 10:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings | 37 min |
| Jun 25, 12:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Clay, Lincoln, Union | 4 hr |
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.