Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Aug 24, 2006, 8:12 PM CDT for Kingsbury County, South Dakota. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 24, 2006, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2006, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kingsbury County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 8:13 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 11 Ssw De Smet, SD |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 99 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 250113 TORFSD SDC077-250145- /O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0022.060825T0112Z-060825T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 812 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN KINGSBURY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 812 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 16 MILES WEST OF OLDHAM...OR ABOUT 30 MILES EAST OF HURON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OLDHAM AROUND 840 PM CDT... THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. THIS WARNING EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN KINGSBURY COUNTY. 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 4436 9770 4420 9779 4420 9714 4431 9713 $$ RSR
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFSD 250125 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 824 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 SDC077-250145- /O.CON.KFSD.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-060825T0145Z/ KINGSBURY SD- 824 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN KINGSBURY COUNTY... AT 824 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF OLDHAM...OR ABOUT 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OLDHAM AROUND 840 PM CDT... THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. IN ADDITION...LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4436 9770 4420 9779 4420 9714 4431 9713 $$ RSR
000 WWUS53 KFSD 250141 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 841 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 SDC077-250151- /O.EXP.KFSD.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-060825T0145Z/ KINGSBURY SD- 841 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN KINGSBURY COUNTY EXPIRES AT 845 PM CDT... 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 4436 9770 4420 9779 4420 9714 4431 9713 $$ 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, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Miner | 36 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
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.