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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 24, 2003Davison County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2003, 5:13 PM CDT for Davison County, South Dakota. It was in force for 32 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, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Davison 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 348 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

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The text

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

370 
WFUS53 KFSD 242213
TORFSD
SDC035-242245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 512 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED  
  A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM NEAR MOUNT VERNON...OR ABOUT 11   MILES 
  WEST OF MITCHELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
RURAL DAVISON COUNTY THROUGH 530 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 4365 9833 4362 9818 4384 9800 4383 9825

$$

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, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay	49 min
Jun 24, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Sanborn	42 min
Jun 24, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Sanborn	46 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.