Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2003, 9:25 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Turner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 35 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 9, 2003, 9:25 PM CDT (02:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Hutchinson County, SD, Turner County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 9, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1765 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
717 WUUS53 KFSD 100225 SVRFSD SDC067-125-100300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 925 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEAST HUTCHINSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA NORTHERN TURNER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 925 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES WEST OF MARION...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF FREEMAN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MARION...PARKER AROUND 1000 PM CDT THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4349 9766 4339 9762 4338 9698 4349 9699 $$ BOUSTEAD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sanborn | 38 min |
| Jun 9, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Gregory | 28 min |
| Jun 9, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sanborn | 43 min |
| Jun 9, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Gregory | 30 min |
| Jun 9, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Miner | 42 min |
| Jun 9, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hanson | 36 min |
| Jun 9, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook | 63 min |
| Jun 9, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Turner | 45 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.