Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 17, 2003Douglas County, Hutchinson County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2003, 3:24 PM CDT for Douglas County, Hutchinson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 36 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 17, 2003, 3:24 PM CDT (20:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2003, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Douglas County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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 nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 2003-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 115 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 2003-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
115 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1319 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
6 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 172024
SVRFSD
SDC043-067-172100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
324 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA
  WESTERN HUTCHINSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 323 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF PARKSTON...MOVING EAST AT 10
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PARKSTON AROUND 400 PM CDT

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE UP TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. GO 
INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4350 9823 4342 9822 4333 9802 4349 9794

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDouglas32 min
Jun 17, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBon Homme34 min
Jun 17, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMcCook44 min
Jun 17, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLake27 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.