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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 24, 2006Lake County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2006, 2:18 PM CDT for Lake County, South Dakota. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 24, 2006, 2:18 PM CDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2006, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lake County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 2006-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 491 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 2006-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 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
491 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-285 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2077 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 24, 10:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 10:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 24, 11:40 AM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1140 AM CDT MON JUL 24 2006

SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-
IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-251200-
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-
1140 AM CDT MON JUL 24 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS...
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN EAST CENTRAL
SOUTH DAKOTA BY EARLY AFTERNOON...AND BECOME SCATTERED ACROSS
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA LATER THIS AFTERNOON. AN ISOLATED STORM MAY
PRODUCE HAIL UP TO PENNY SIZE OR WINDS TO NEAR 60 MPH. SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE AGAIN
OVERNIGHT...ESPECIALLY
AFTER MIDNIGHT FROM EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA THROUGH SOUTHWEST
MINNESOTA...AND EXTREME NORTHERN IOWA.	AN ISOLATED STORM COULD
PRODUCE PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WINDS GUSTS TO 65 MPH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA TUESDAY NIGHT AND
AGAIN WEDNESDAY NIGHT. A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL TO THE
SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 65 MPH.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS
WEATHER OUTLOOK.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrule36 min
Jul 24, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDavison36 min
Jul 24, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLake, Miner33 min
Jul 24, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHanson28 min
Jul 24, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLake33 min
Jul 24, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMcCook24 min
Jul 24, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha, Moody34 min
Jul 24, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMcCook33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.