Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 44, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2004, 8:25 PM CDT for Brookings County, South Dakota. It was in force for 50 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 15, 2004, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2004, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Brookings County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 15, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 781 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
375 WFUS53 KFSD 160125 TORFSD SDC011-160215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 825 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BROOKINGS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 825 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF VOLGA...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF BROOKINGS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... VOLGA AROUND 830 PM CDT BRUCE AROUND 835 PM CDT BROOKINGS AROUND 840 PM CDT AURORA AROUND 850 PM CDT WHITE AROUND 855 PM CDT ELKTON AROUND 910 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4454 9714 4425 9715 4420 9646 4454 9646 $$ JRM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings, Kingsbury | 38 min |
| Jun 16, 4:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 5:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 6:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 10:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Union | 113 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.