Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Watches in 2005

Tornado Watch 432

June 7, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 7, 2005, 9:50 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2005, 9:50 PM CDT (02:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2005, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 73 counties

Lyon County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Becker County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Clay County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Pope County, MN, Rock County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Dickey County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Bon Homme County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Brown County, SD, Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Davison County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Grant County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McCook County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Spink County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Turner County, SD, Yankton County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Warnings issued inside it

61 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes, Hyde, Potter, Sully	42 min
Jun 7, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk, Hand	60 min
Jun 7, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brule, Charles Mix, Gregory	39 min
Jun 7, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown, Edmunds	62 min
Jun 7, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle, Jerauld	41 min
Jun 7, 10:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Dickey, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman	115 min
Jun 7, 10:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	McPherson	14 min
Jun 7, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Spink	43 min
Jun 7, 10:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Dickey	25 min
Jun 7, 10:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Beadle	52 min
Jun 7, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brule, Charles Mix, Gregory	32 min
Jun 7, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	McPherson	44 min
Jun 7, 10:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Brown	42 min
Jun 7, 10:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Edmunds, McPherson	40 min
Jun 7, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Jerauld	42 min
Jun 7, 10:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Dickey	46 min
Jun 7, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk, Hand	42 min
Jun 7, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Aurora	40 min
Jun 7, 11:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Day, Spink	24 min
Jun 7, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Clark, Codington, Hamlin	64 min
Jun 7, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Charles Mix, Douglas	46 min
Jun 7, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Davison, Sanborn	43 min
Jun 7, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle, Kingsbury	52 min
Jun 7, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Ransom, Richland, Sargent	66 min
Jun 7, 11:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Marshall	50 min
Jun 7, 11:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Brown	27 min
Jun 7, 11:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Day	25 min
Jun 7, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Edmunds, McPherson	31 min
Jun 7, 11:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Sargent	48 min
Jun 7, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	22 min
Jun 7, 11:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	37 min
Jun 7, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	35 min
Jun 7, 11:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Roberts	49 min
Jun 7, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Grant	31 min
Jun 8, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	57 min
Jun 8, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Deuel	42 min
Jun 8, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Miner	21 min
Jun 8, 12:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings	43 min
Jun 8, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Codington, Hamlin	45 min
Jun 8, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lake	29 min
Jun 8, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	McCook	27 min
Jun 8, 12:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Barnes, Cass	56 min
Jun 8, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	53 min
Jun 8, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Lyon	49 min
Jun 8, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Ransom, Richland, Sargent	61 min
Jun 8, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Grant	31 min
Jun 8, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Stevens, Swift	60 min
Jun 8, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grant, Otter Tail, Wilkin	57 min
Jun 8, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Hutchinson	14 min
Jun 8, 12:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	50 min
Jun 8, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Deuel	31 min
Jun 8, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	McCook	28 min
Jun 8, 12:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	66 min
Jun 8, 12:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings	29 min
Jun 8, 1:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Pipestone	29 min
Jun 8, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Lyon	39 min
Jun 8, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope	67 min
Jun 8, 1:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABR	Traverse	3 hr
Jun 8, 1:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Chippewa, Stevens, Swift	51 min
Jun 8, 1:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon	29 min
Jun 8, 1:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Stearns, Todd	60 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 49 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: 179 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -232 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Audubon, Cass, Cherokee, Crawford, Fremont and 11 more	5 hr
Jun 8, 8:55 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas, Ringgold and 1 more	65 min
Jun 8, 9:47 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appanoose, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson and 11 more	28 min
Jun 8, 9:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Henry, Jefferson and 5 more	7 hr
Jun 8, 11:46 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appanoose, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee and 4 more	29 min
Jun 8, 12:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Des Moines, Henry, Lee	5 hr
Jun 8, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Guthrie and 8 more	4 hr
Jun 7, 7:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Mower and 6 more	92 min
Jun 7, 9:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Traverse, Wilkin	57 min
Jun 7, 10:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Goodhue and 13 more	97 min
Jun 7, 11:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln and 9 more	59 min
Jun 8, 12:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 34 more	96 min
Jun 8, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago and 33 more	6 hr
Jun 8, 3:46 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anoka, Blue Earth, Carlton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 25 more	89 min
Jun 8, 3:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Cass, Clearwater and 19 more	116 min
Jun 7, 7:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Emmons, McIntosh, Sioux	91 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.