Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2006, 4:07 PM CDT for Buena Vista County, Iowa. It was in force for 23 min. 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
- Jul 1, 2006, 4:07 PM CDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2006, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Buena Vista County, IA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 4:15 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 2 Nw Albert City, IA | WINDS ESTIMATED FROM 50 TO 60 MILES AN HOUR AND PEA SIZE HAIL. |
| Jul 1, 4:26 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 2 Nw Albert City, IA | WINDS ESTIMATED FROM 50 TO 60 MILES AN HOUR AND PEA SIZE HAIL. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
Did it verify
Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched 2 storm reports to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 8 minutes after it went out.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -648 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2298 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFSD 012107 SVRFSD IAC021-012130- /O.NEW.KFSD.SV.W.0103.060701T2107Z-060701T2130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 407 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUENA VISTA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 407 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARATHON...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF STORM LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ALBERT CITY THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4290 9516 4272 9514 4274 9492 4292 9494 $$ RSR
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KFSD 012132 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 431 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006 IAC021-012141- /O.EXP.KFSD.SV.W.0103.000000T0000Z-060701T2130Z/ BUENA VISTA IA- 431 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BUENA VISTA COUNTY EXPIRED AT 430 PM CDT... AT 430 PM CDT...THE SEVERE STORM MOVED EAST OF THE COUNTY. AT 415 PM CDT...60 MPH WIND GUSTS WERE REPORTED 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALBERT CITY. LAT...LON 4290 9516 4272 9514 4274 9492 4292 9494 $$ RSR
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 1, 3:30 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 3:30 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 330 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006 .DISCUSSION... WK MID LVL WAVE OVR CNTRL SD ENHANCING ACCAS PRECIP ALG EDGE OF MID LVL CAP THIS AFTN FROM NW IA BACK THRU NCNTRL NEBRASKA. SFC AIR IS PRACTICALLY USELESS IN THE CURRENT SCENARIO WITH RAOB ANLYS STILL SHOWING A 50-70J/KG CINH TO OVERCOME...AND THAT IS WITH THE OVERINFLATED SFC TMPS WHICH CLDS/LIGHT PCPN MAKING EVEN WORSE. WITH USEFUL INSTABILITY CONFINED TO AN ELEVATED MIXED LAYER. WORST CASE SCENARIO WOULD BE FOR AN ISOLATED PENNY OR NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORT. GENERALLY...TREND GOING THROUGH THE NIGHT SHOULD BE FOR THE BNDRY TO SINK SWRD ENDING PCPN THREAT N TO S...ALMOST ALL AREAS BY ARND MIDNIGHT. SFC RIDGE SETTLES ACROSS CWA OVERNIGHT...WITH SKIES ENDING UP ON THE THIN CI SIDE OF CLR. COULD END UP WITH A LITTLE LIGHT FOG OUT THROUGH THE JAMES VALLEY...AND WL PLAY LOWS WITH A BIT OF ELEVATION LOOK ACRS NRN HALF...SHADING TOWARD A BIT COOLER. ON SUNDAY...ANOTHER WEAK FNT SAGS ACRS CWA. NOT MUCH IN THE WAY OF STRONG FORCING...BUT AGAIN CUD SEE SOME SPOTTY MID LEVEL TRW...BUT SINCE THERE IS LTL DEFINED FORCING...WL BLANKET 20% POPS ACRS CWA IN THE AFTN AND CONT INTO EVE. LATER SUN NIGHT...A BETTER S/W MOVES EWD ACRS NEB AND WL HELP TO PRODUCE A BETTER DEFINED AREA OF TRW LATE ACRS FAR SRN CWA NR FNT AND THEN WL SPREAD/DEVELOP ENEWD ON MON. WL GO WITH HIGH POPS (40%) ACRS NW IA MON AFTN AND EVE. TEMPS BOTH SUN AND MON SHUD BE WARM...BUT WL BE HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON CLOUD COVER. MAY BE LESS OF A PBLM ON SUN AS THERE SHUD ONLY BE SPOOTY PRECIP AND LESS CLOUD COVER THAN ON MON. AFTER MON NITE...COOLER AIR WL SPILL INTO NRN PLAINS AS SFC HIGH DROPS S INTO THE NRN PLAINS. TUESDAY AND WED SHUD BE THE NICEST WITH TEMPS IN THE LOWER TO MID 80S. DRY AIR WL ALLOW A WIDE RANGE IN DIURNAL TEMPS THRU THE WEEK WITH A GRADUAL WARMUP WED INTO SAT. WL KEEP FCST DRY AFTER MON NITE. TYPICAL JULY DOLDRUMS. && .FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. IA...NONE. NE...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 1, 11:02 AM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1102 AM CDT SAT JUL 01 2006 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-021200- AURORA-BEADLE-BON HOMME-BROOKINGS-BRULE-BUENA VISTA IA- CHARLES MIX-CHEROKEE IA-CLAY-CLAY IA-COTTONWOOD MN-DAKOTA NE- DAVISON-DICKINSON IA-DIXON NE-DOUGLAS-GREGORY-HANSON-HUTCHINSON- IDA IA-JACKSON MN-JERAULD-KINGSBURY-LAKE-LINCOLN-LINCOLN MN- LYON IA-LYON MN-MCCOOK-MINER-MINNEHAHA-MOODY-MURRAY MN-NOBLES MN- OBRIEN IA-OSCEOLA IA-PIPESTONE MN-PLYMOUTH IA-ROCK MN-SANBORN- SIOUX IA-TURNER-UNION-WOODBURY IA-YANKTON- 1102 AM CDT SAT JUL 01 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... AN ISOLATED HIGH BASED THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE TO BE A THREAT INTO EARLY AFTERNOON SOUTH OF A LINE FROM PONCA TO SIOUX RAPIDS. THESE STORMS WILL NOT BE SEVERE. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING FROM THE LOWER MISSOURI VALLEY INTO NORTHWEST IOWA. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE HAIL FROM PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM VERMILLION TO SIOUX RAPIDS...BUT WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THIS WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY EVENING. ON SUNDAY...AN ISOLATED STORM COULD PRODUCE HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE DURING THE EVENING. ON MONDAY...THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRIMARILY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90. A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER 5 PM SOUTH OF A LINE FROM VERMILLION TO SIOUX RAPIDS. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
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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.