Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT for Turner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 45 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, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2003, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Turner County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 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 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 197 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.
765 WUUS53 KFSD 100300 SVRFSD SDC125-100345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 959 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TURNER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 959 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF MARION...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HURLEY...CHANCELLOR AROUND 1010 PM CDT THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4348 9722 4334 9737 4313 9711 4341 9694 $$ 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, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson, Turner | 35 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.