Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Sep 12, 2005, 7:09 PM CDT for Brookings County, South Dakota; Lincoln County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 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
- Sep 12, 2005, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2005, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lincoln County, MN, Brookings County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1506 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFSD 130010 TORFSD MNC081-SDC011-130045- /O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0023.050913T0009Z-050913T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 709 PM CDT MON SEP 12 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BROOKINGS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 709 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WHITE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF BROOKINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HENDRICKS AROUND 730 PM CDT NUMEROUS CLOUD ROTATIONS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH VARIOUS THUNDERSTORMS. THIS WARNING EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS WARNING FOR BROOKINGS COUNTY. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4443 9675 4421 9668 4454 9618 4463 9645 $$ RSR
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFSD 130026 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 726 PM CDT MON SEP 12 2005 MNC081-SDC011-130045- /O.CON.KFSD.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-050913T0045Z/ LINCOLN MN-BROOKINGS SD- 726 PM CDT MON SEP 12 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR BROOKINGS AND LINCOLN COUNTIES... AT 726 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HENDRICKS...OR ABOUT 22 MILES NORTHEAST OF BROOKINGS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL LINCOLN COUNTY THROUGH 740 PM CDT ROTATIONS CONTINUED TO BE REPORTED WITH VARIOUS THUNDERSTORMS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4443 9675 4421 9668 4454 9618 4463 9645 $$ RSR
000 WWUS53 KFSD 130045 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 745 PM CDT MON SEP 12 2005 MNC081-SDC011-130055- /O.EXP.KFSD.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-050913T0045Z/ LINCOLN MN-BROOKINGS SD- 745 PM CDT MON SEP 12 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BROOKINGS AND LINCOLN COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 745 PM CDT... THE STORMS ARE NO LONGER SEVERE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4443 9675 4421 9668 4454 9618 4463 9645 $$ RSR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Hutchinson | 24 min |
| Sep 12, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 23 min |
| Sep 12, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Hutchinson | 32 min |
| Sep 12, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Hutchinson, Yankton | 47 min |
| Sep 12, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Turner, Yankton | 46 min |
| Sep 12, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Yankton | 35 min |
| Sep 12, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Turner | 47 min |
| Sep 12, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Moody | 38 min |
| Sep 12, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 26 min |
| Sep 12, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 34 min |
| Sep 12, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon, Murray | 41 min |
| Sep 12, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Murray | 30 min |
| Sep 12, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Murray | 38 min |
| Sep 12, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Jackson | 30 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.