Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 27, 2003Hutchinson County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2003, 6:16 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 29 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 27, 2003, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hutchinson County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 173 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2003-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2003-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2046 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
172 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 272316
SVRFSD
SDC067-272345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
616 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEAST HUTCHINSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 616 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HUTCHINSON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF PARKSTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
RURAL HUTCHINSON COUNTY THROUGH 630 PM CDT

LAT...LON 4349 9784 4339 9786 4338 9757 4338 9741
          4349 9741

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMoody23 min
Jun 27, 6:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDTurner36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.