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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 24, 2003Dixon County, Nebraska; Jerauld County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2003, 5:52 PM CDT for Dixon County, Nebraska; Jerauld County, South Dakota. It was in force for 38 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, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dixon County, NE, Jerauld 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 347 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: 413 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -377 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KFSD 242252
TORFSD
NEC051-242330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DIXON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 551 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  NEWCASTLE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF LAUREL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  RURAL PARTS OF WESTERN DIXON COUNTY BY 600 PM CDT
  NEWCASTLE AROUND 610 PM CDT
  

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

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4274 9701 4240 9701 4248 9673 4266 9674

$$

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1 follow-up statement

277 
WFUS53 KFSD 242252 RRA
TORFSD
SDC073-242330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 552 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTH OF LANE...OR
  ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WESSINGTON SPRINGS...MOVING NORTH AT 15
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  LANE AROUND 620 PM CDT

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

LAT...LON 4394 9852 4394 9839 4415 9835 4416 9848

$$
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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, 10:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Dixon	56 min
Jun 23, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Dakota	58 min
Jun 23, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Dixon	30 min
Jun 23, 11:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Dixon	2 hr
Jun 23, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Dakota	28 min
Jun 24, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Dixon	30 min
Jun 24, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Dixon	49 min
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, 12:46 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, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Sanborn	42 min
Jun 24, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Sanborn	46 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

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 2003 Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, 2003 Every tornado warning in 2003 Tornadoes 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.