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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 24, 2003Minnehaha County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2003, 10:14 PM CDT for Minnehaha 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, 10:14 PM CDT (03:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Minnehaha 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, 8:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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.

309 
WFUS53 KFSD 250314
TORFSD
SDC099-250400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1014 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1013 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTH OF
  HUMBOLDT...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF PARKER...MOVING NORTHEAST 
  AT 45 MPH.  A SECOND TORNADIC CIRCULATION WAS LOCATED SOUTHWEST OF
  COLTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  COLTON AROUND 1020 PM CDT
  CROOKS...SIOUX FALLS...AROUND 1030 PM CDT
  BALTIC AROUND 1040 PM CDT
  BRANDON AROUND 1045 PM CDT

THIS EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING FOR MINNEHAHA COUNTY.

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

LAT...LON 4383 9711 4350 9712 4351 9654 4380 9657

$$
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, 8:15 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, 10:28 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.