Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2006, 5:23 PM CDT for Charles Mix County, Douglas County, South Dakota. It was in force for 37 min. 4 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
- Sep 16, 2006, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2006, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Charles Mix County, SD, Douglas County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 5:25 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 10 N Wagner, SD | |
| Sep 16, 5:32 PM CDT | HAIL 4.25 | 2 S Delmont, SD | |
| Sep 16, 5:33 PM CDT | HAIL 2.5 | Delmont, SD | SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO SIDING...WINDOWS...AND CARS. |
| Sep 16, 5:35 PM CDT | TORNADO | 2 Sw Delmont, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 561 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 481 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFSD 162223 TORFSD SDC023-043-162300- /O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0030.060916T2223Z-060916T2300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 523 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CHARLES MIX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA EASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 523 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF RAVINIA...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF LAKE ANDES... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ARMOUR AROUND 535 PM CDT... DELMONT AROUND 540 PM CDT... THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4312 9854 4306 9816 4349 9811 4350 9831 $$ BT
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KFSD 162230 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 529 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006 SDC023-043-162300- /O.CON.KFSD.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-060916T2300Z/ CHARLES MIX SD-DOUGLAS SD- 529 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR DOUGLAS AND CHARLES MIX COUNTIES... AT 529 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF DELMONT...OR ABOUT 18 MILES EAST OF LAKE ANDES...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE STRONG ROTATION WITH THIS STORM. THE TORNADO IS APPROACHING DELMONT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4312 9854 4305 9813 4349 9811 4350 9831 $$ BT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Yankton | 25 min |
| Sep 15, 10:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Yankton | 114 min |
| Sep 16, 1:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Yankton | 83 min |
| Sep 16, 4:35 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more | 13 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson | 27 min |
| Sep 16, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hanson, Hutchinson | 44 min |
| Sep 16, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Hanson, McCook | 29 min |
| Sep 16, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | McCook, Minnehaha | 48 min |
| Sep 16, 4:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lake, Moody | 43 min |
| Sep 16, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brule | 35 min |
| Sep 16, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Brookings | 42 min |
| Sep 16, 4:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Gregory | 38 min |
| Sep 16, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook | 37 min |
| Sep 16, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Aurora, Brule, Jerauld | 45 min |
| Sep 16, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Moody | 42 min |
| Sep 16, 5:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Hutchinson | 28 min |
| Sep 16, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake | 26 min |
| Sep 16, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Sanborn | 31 min |
| Sep 16, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hanson, McCook | 56 min |
| Sep 16, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Moody | 23 min |
| Sep 16, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Moody | 37 min |
| Sep 16, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Beadle, Kingsbury | 50 min |
| Sep 16, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | McCook | 33 min |
| Sep 16, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake | 33 min |
| Sep 16, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 17 min |
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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.