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Tornado Watch 553

June 29, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 29, 2005, 11:30 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 2005, 11:30 AM CDT (16:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2005, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 58 counties

Clay County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Lyon County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Big Stone County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Rock County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Dickey County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Bon Homme County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Brown County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Davison County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Lincoln 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, Turner County, SD, Yankton County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:32 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.

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 1:10 PM CDTTornado WarningABRFaulk, Spink35 min
Jun 29, 1:20 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown55 min
Jun 29, 2:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Day, Marshall46 min
Jun 29, 2:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningABRBrown, Day, Marshall6 hr
Jun 29, 2:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSpink23 min
Jun 29, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRMarshall31 min
Jun 29, 3:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningABRRoberts6 hr
Jun 29, 3:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFSargent57 min
Jun 29, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCodington, Grant40 min
Jun 29, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRRoberts17 min
Jun 29, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBig Stone, Traverse60 min
Jun 29, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRGrant34 min
Jun 29, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSpink17 min
Jun 29, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXStevens56 min
Jun 29, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBig Stone32 min
Jun 29, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRTraverse25 min
Jun 29, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFGrant61 min
Jun 29, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDNobles, Rock27 min
Jun 29, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon36 min
Jun 29, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMurray52 min
Jun 29, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDNobles42 min
Jun 29, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDouglas, Pope, Stevens63 min
Jun 29, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXYellow Medicine46 min
Jun 29, 5:21 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon24 min
Jun 29, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Day37 min
Jun 29, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXSwift51 min
Jun 29, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDTurner15 min
Jun 29, 5:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon34 min
Jun 29, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCottonwood44 min
Jun 29, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXRedwood36 min
Jun 29, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRMarshall35 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 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 12:00Z on 2005-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 432 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2005-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 165 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
432 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
3.9

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Dickinson, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth, Lyon and 5 more7 hr
Jun 29, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 22 more6 hr
Jun 29, 6:50 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Dallas, Fremont and 8 more85 min
Jun 29, 11:01 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln and 6 more59 min
Jun 29, 1:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Traverse, Yellow Medicine113 min
Jun 29, 3:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBecker, Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Cottonwood, Douglas and 25 more53 min
Jun 29, 6:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAitkin, Anoka, Carlton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 21 more83 min
Jun 28, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Billings, Bowman, Burke, Divide, Dunn and 7 more7 hr
Jun 28, 11:11 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 24 more94 min
Jun 28, 11:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Emmons, Grant, Kidder and 15 more6 hr
Jun 29, 4:03 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenson, Dickey, Emmons, Foster, Kidder, LaMoure and 5 more87 min
Jun 28, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAurora, Brule, Buffalo, Campbell, Charles Mix, Corson and 19 more5 hr
Jun 28, 10:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAurora, Bennett, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix, Corson and 19 more60 min
Jun 28, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrule, Buffalo, Butte, Campbell, Corson, Dewey and 15 more7 hr
Jun 29, 2:47 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson, Potter, Spink and 1 more88 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.