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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 24, 2003Turner County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT for Turner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 45 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, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Turner 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 3681 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1413 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 10.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

054 
WFUS53 KFSD 250115
TORFSD
SDC125-250200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TURNER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 814 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF CENTERVILLE...MOVING 
  NORTH AT 15 MPH.  ANOTHER DEVELOPING STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES 
  SOUTH OF MARION...AND WILL LIKELY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A 
  TORNADO.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  CHANCELLOR AROUND 855 PM CDT

A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW.
MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE.

LAT...LON 4311 9704 4311 9691 4342 9693 4336 9704

$$
CHAPMAN

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, 7:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Charles Mix, Douglas	40 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, 8:16 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

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.