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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 24, 2003Sanborn County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2003, 5:44 PM CDT for Sanborn County, South Dakota. It was in force for 46 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, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sanborn County, SD

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 24, 2:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 367 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1284 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

590 
WFUS53 KFSD 242244
TORFSD
SDC111-242330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
544 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SANBORN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 544 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  ARTESIAN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF MITCHELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  ARTESIAN AROUND 615 PM CDT

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE
COVER NOW.

LAT...LON 4385 9819 4384 9792 4409 9787 4416 9806

$$
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay, Union	50 min
Jun 23, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	44 min
Jun 24, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lake	39 min
Jun 24, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay, Union	30 min
Jun 24, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lake	29 min
Jun 24, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lake	45 min
Jun 24, 1:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Charles Mix	39 min
Jun 24, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Douglas	37 min
Jun 24, 1:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Aurora	42 min
Jun 24, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Davison	32 min
Jun 24, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brule	29 min
Jun 24, 2:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Jerauld, Sanborn	40 min
Jun 24, 2:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Davison	30 min
Jun 24, 2:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Hanson	26 min
Jun 24, 2:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Miner	41 min
Jun 24, 2:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle	37 min
Jun 24, 3:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	42 min
Jun 24, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Davison	37 min
Jun 24, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Davison	32 min
Jun 24, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay	49 min
Jun 24, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Sanborn	42 min
Jun 24, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Jerauld	38 min
Jun 24, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Clay	51 min
Jun 24, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Sanborn	50 min
Jun 24, 6:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lincoln	31 min
Jun 24, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Minnehaha	47 min
Jun 24, 6:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Clay	38 min
Jun 24, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Beadle	49 min
Jun 24, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	24 min
Jun 24, 6:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Turner	51 min
Jun 24, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	48 min

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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.