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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 24, 2003Charles Mix County, Douglas County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2003, 7:35 PM CDT for Charles Mix County, Douglas 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, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Charles Mix County, SD, Douglas 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 728 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -202 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 790 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 552 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

581 
WFUS53 KFSD 250035
TORFSD
SDC023-043-250115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CHARLES MIX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
  DOUGLAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 735 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER GEDDES...OR ABOUT 11
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF PLATTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  LAKE ANDES AROUND 745 PM CDT
  WAGNER AROUND 750 PM CDT
  CORSICA...ARMOUR AROUND 800 PM CDT

ROTATION HAS BEEN REPORTED IN PICKSTOWN WITH THIS STORM.

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

LAT...LON 4350 9922 4299 9846 4317 9810 4349 9814

$$

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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 24, 7:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Clay, Lincoln	46 min
Jun 24, 7:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	27 min
Jun 24, 7:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	50 min
Jun 24, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Turner	32 min
Jun 24, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Gregory	30 min
Jun 24, 7:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lincoln	54 min
Jun 24, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Aurora	42 min
Jun 24, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Gregory	40 min
Jun 24, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Jerauld	35 min
Jun 24, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Turner	45 min
Jun 24, 8:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Charles Mix, Douglas	44 min
Jun 24, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle	40 min
Jun 24, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Davison	55 min
Jun 24, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	37 min
Jun 24, 8:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Charles Mix, Douglas, Gregory	4 hr
Jun 24, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	31 min
Jun 24, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Sanborn	44 min
Jun 24, 8:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Clay	25 min
Jun 24, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	McCook	38 min
Jun 24, 8:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lincoln	31 min
Jun 24, 8:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Beadle	46 min
Jun 24, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Aurora	45 min
Jun 24, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	41 min
Jun 24, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	50 min
Jun 24, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Douglas	49 min
Jun 24, 8:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Turner	47 min
Jun 24, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brule, Jerauld	25 min
Jun 24, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Hanson, Hutchinson	46 min
Jun 24, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Davison	45 min
Jun 24, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	McCook	43 min
Jun 24, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme	41 min
Jun 24, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle, Kingsbury	30 min
Jun 24, 9:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	McCook, Minnehaha	43 min
Jun 24, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Charles Mix	34 min
Jun 24, 9:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Beadle, Kingsbury	32 min
Jun 24, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Yankton	42 min
Jun 24, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Turner	39 min
Jun 24, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Hutchinson	31 min
Jun 24, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	McCook	29 min
Jun 24, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay	47 min
Jun 24, 10:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	46 min
Jun 24, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Turner	32 min
Jun 24, 10:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lake, Moody	44 min
Jun 24, 10:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Turner	26 min
Jun 24, 10:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lincoln	52 min
Jun 24, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	32 min
Jun 24, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings	37 min
Jun 25, 12:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Clay, Lincoln, Union	4 hr

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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.