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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 31, 2006Aurora County, Davison County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2006, 4:24 PM CDT for Aurora County, Davison County, South Dakota. 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 31, 2006, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 2006, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Aurora County, SD, Davison County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 340 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2006-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 279 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2006-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 130 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
279 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-416 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 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 31, 3:30 PM CDT, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 3:30 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 31, 10:45 AM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1045 AM CDT MON JUL 31 2006

SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-
IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-011200-
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-
1045 AM CDT MON JUL 31 2006

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS...
THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA
TONIGHT...WITH THE BEST CHANCE NORTH OF INTERSTATE 90. A FEW OF
THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE LATE THIS EVENING.

FIRE DANGER...
A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT WEST OF A HURON TO TYNDALL LINE
THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL VARY
FROM 100 TO 105 DEGREES AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL DROP TO 20
TO 30 PERCENT CAUSING EXTREME FIRE CONDITIONS. WINDS WILL BE OUT
OF THE SOUTH AT 10 TO 20 MPH...BUT WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST
LATE THIS AFTERNOON.

EXCESSIVE TEMPERATURES...
A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING AS HEAT INDICES
OF 105 TO 110 DEGREES CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY
EVENING ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA TUESDAY.
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD BY TUESDAY
EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE IN THE LATE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS...WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS
POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY IN PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST IOWA.  AREAS OF
HEAVY RAIN MAY BE POSSIBLE IN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH
DAKOTA...SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...AND NORTHWEST IOWA TUESDAY NIGHT.

IT WILL REMAIN VERY HOT ACROSS NORTHWEST IOWA AND NORTHEAST
NEBRASKA ON TUESDAY WITH AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES NEAR 105 DEGREES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER 7 PM NORTH OF A LINE
FROM MITCHELL SOUTH DAKOTA TO MARSHALL MINNESOTA.

&&

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

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.