Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 24, 2003Jerauld County, Sanborn County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2003, 2:20 AM CDT for Jerauld County, Sanborn County, South Dakota. It was in force for 40 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, 2:20 AM CDT (07:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2003, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Jerauld County, SD, Sanborn County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:21 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 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 00:00Z on 2003-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1534 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 00:00Z on 2003-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 120 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
1534 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
996 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
407 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
4.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KFSD 240720
SVRFSD
SDC073-111-240800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
220 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  JERAULD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
  SANBORN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 300 AM CDT

* AT 220 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 17 MILES SOUTH OF WESSINGTON
  SPRINGS TO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ARTESIAN...OR FROM 17 MILES SOUTH
  OF WESSINGTON SPRINGS TO 5 MILES NORTH OF MITCHELL...MOVING NORTH
  AT 40 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  WESSINGTON SPRINGS...WOONSOCKET...ARTESIAN AROUND 240 AM CDT

THIS STORM PRODUCED 70 MPH WINDS WITH TREES DOWN IN DAVISON COUNTY. 

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4417 9809 4416 9789 4388 9792 4388 9831
          4396 9835 4395 9868 4417 9866

$$

BOUSTEAD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay, Union50 min
Jun 23, 11:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha44 min
Jun 24, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLake39 min
Jun 24, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay, Union30 min
Jun 24, 12:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLake29 min
Jun 24, 1:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLake45 min
Jun 24, 1:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix39 min
Jun 24, 1:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDouglas37 min
Jun 24, 1:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDAurora42 min
Jun 24, 1:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDavison32 min
Jun 24, 2:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrule29 min
Jun 24, 2:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDavison30 min
Jun 24, 2:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHanson26 min
Jun 24, 2:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMiner41 min
Jun 24, 2:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBeadle37 min
Jun 24, 3:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDKingsbury42 min
Jun 24, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDavison37 min
Jun 24, 5:13 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDavison32 min
Jun 24, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay49 min
Jun 24, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSanborn42 min
Jun 24, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDSanborn46 min
Jun 24, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJerauld38 min
Jun 24, 5:54 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay51 min
Jun 24, 6:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDSanborn50 min
Jun 24, 6:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln31 min
Jun 24, 6:28 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln, Minnehaha47 min
Jun 24, 6:37 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay38 min
Jun 24, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBeadle49 min
Jun 24, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha24 min
Jun 24, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDTurner51 min
Jun 24, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDKingsbury48 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.