Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Aug 24, 2006, 8:01 PM CDT for Miner 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2006, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2006, 8:37 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Miner County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 1638 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFSD 250101 TORFSD SDC097-250200- /O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0021.060825T0101Z-060825T0200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 801 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MINER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 801 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CARTHAGE...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HURON... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CARTHAGE AT 810 PM... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4419 9785 4402 9785 4403 9739 4420 9739 $$ BT
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFSD 250113 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 810 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 SDC097-250200- /O.CON.KFSD.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060825T0200Z/ MINER SD- 810 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN MINER COUNTY... AT 810 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES EAST OF CARTHAGE...OR ABOUT 29 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CARTHAGE AT 810 PM... RURAL MINER COUNTY THROUGH 845 PM... DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE STRONG ROTATION JUST NORTH OF CARTHAGE. THIS ROTATION HAS ALSO BEEN CONFIRMED BY TRAINED SPOTTER. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4419 9785 4402 9785 4403 9739 4420 9739 $$ BT
000 WWUS53 KFSD 250118 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 817 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 SDC097-250200- /O.CON.KFSD.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060825T0200Z/ MINER SD- 817 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN MINER COUNTY... AT 817 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF CARTHAGE...OR ABOUT 28 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL MINER COUNTY THROUGH 845 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE STRONG ROTATION TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF CARTHAGE. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW...THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4419 9785 4402 9785 4403 9739 4420 9739 $$ BT
000 WWUS53 KFSD 250137 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 836 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 SDC097-250146- /O.CAN.KFSD.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060825T0200Z/ MINER SD- 836 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN MINER COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM HAS WEAKENED AND EXITED THE COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4419 9785 4402 9785 4403 9739 4420 9739 $$ RSR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Beadle | 64 min |
| Aug 24, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 52 min |
| Aug 24, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hanson, McCook | 37 min |
| Aug 24, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 35 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, 2006Every tornado warning in 2006Tornadoes 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.