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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 21, 2005Charles Mix County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 2005, 12:56 AM CDT for Charles Mix County, South Dakota. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 2005, 12:56 AM CDT (05:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 2005, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Charles Mix County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 21, 1:00 AM CDTFLASH FLOODWagner, SD6 TO 8 INCHES OF WATER WAS REPORTED ON THE STREETS OF WAGNER BY THE LAKES ANDES WARNING POINT.
Jun 21, 3:11 AM CDTFLASH FLOODWagner, SDHIGHWAY 50 EAST OF LAKE ANDES CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER...UNABLE TO GET TO AREAS AROUND RAVINIA. IN WAGNER...CREEK FLOODED ON SOUTHEAST SIDE OF TOWN WITH UP TO 3 FEET OF WATER IN STREETS.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 190 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2005-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1190 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2005-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-164 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1807 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KFSD 210559
FFWFSD
SDC023-210900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1256 AM CDT TUE JUN 21 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CHARLES MIX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 400 AM CDT

* AT 1256 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 
  INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORM OVER 
  THE EASTERN HALF OF CHARLES MIX COUNTY.  THIS COMPLEX OF STORMS 
  AS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN WAS ESTIMATED ON RADAR BETWEEN LAKE 
ANDES AND WAGNER.  WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES 
EXPECTED THROUGH 230 AM CDT...FLASH FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED TO 
DEVELOP...ESPECIALLY AROUND GEDDES...LAKE ANDES AND WAGNER.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

LAT...LON 4336 9872 4321 9886 4286 9818 4316 9811

$$

SCHUMACHER
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS73 KFSD 210612
FFSFSD

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
108 AM CDT TUE JUN 21 2005

SDC023-210900-
CHARLES MIX SD-
108 AM CDT TUE JUN 21 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 400 AM CDT FOR CHARLES MIX
COUNTY...

AT 108 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING.  THESE 
STORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS EASTERN CHARLES MIX COUNTY AND MOVING 
SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

AT 100 AM CDT...CHARLES MIX COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED 6 TO 8 
INCHES OF WATER MOVING OVER STREETS IN WAGNER.  WITH HEAVY RAIN 
EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH 230 AM...ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 
INCHES IS EXPECTED WHICH WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING AROUND 
WAGNER...LAKE ANDES AND GEDDES.  

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

LAT...LON 4336 9872 4321 9886 4286 9818 4316 9811

$$

SCHUMACHER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 7:21 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDClay, Union3 hr
Jun 20, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion50 min
Jun 20, 7:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay42 min
Jun 20, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha23 min
Jun 20, 8:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDMinnehaha3 hr
Jun 20, 8:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDBrookings3 hr
Jun 20, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay, Union61 min
Jun 20, 8:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDTurner3 hr
Jun 20, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDTurner65 min
Jun 20, 9:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrookings42 min
Jun 20, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDGregory50 min
Jun 20, 9:38 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDTurner37 min
Jun 20, 9:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDMoody2 hr
Jun 20, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDJerauld, Sanborn62 min
Jun 20, 10:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDClay2 hr
Jun 20, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSanborn62 min
Jun 20, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDGregory60 min
Jun 20, 10:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDTurner29 min
Jun 20, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMcCook32 min
Jun 20, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHanson44 min
Jun 20, 10:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBeadle, Jerauld44 min
Jun 20, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDTurner32 min
Jun 20, 10:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDBon Homme, Yankton3 hr
Jun 20, 10:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBon Homme41 min
Jun 20, 10:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDBeadle, Sanborn2 hr
Jun 20, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDavison24 min
Jun 20, 11:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDMcCook, Minnehaha, Turner2 hr
Jun 20, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay, Yankton16 min
Jun 20, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDTurner12 min
Jun 20, 11:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHanson58 min
Jun 20, 11:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDDavison, Hanson2 hr
Jun 20, 11:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDavison32 min
Jun 20, 11:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix47 min
Jun 20, 11:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBon Homme25 min
Jun 20, 11:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDMoody113 min
Jun 21, 12:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix47 min
Jun 21, 1:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrule56 min
Jun 21, 1:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDBon Homme115 min
Jun 21, 1:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDGregory40 min
Jun 21, 1:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrule30 min
Jun 21, 2:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDGregory38 min
Jun 21, 3:11 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDCharles Mix3 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.