Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2006, 6:41 PM CDT for Kingsbury County, South Dakota. It was in force for 8 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
- May 2, 2006, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2006, 6:49 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 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), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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 022343
TORFSD
SDC077-030015-
/O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0009.060502T2341Z-060503T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
641 PM CDT TUE MAY 2 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEAST KINGSBURY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 641 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
NORTHEAST OF HETLAND...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
ARLINGTON AROUND 650 PM CDT...
AT 640 PM CDT MEDIA REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
HETLAND.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND
SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA.
LAT...LON 4452 9714 4433 9714 4434 9731 4435 9733
4437 9733 4438 9731 4450 9731 4452 9730
$$
LIEBL1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KFSD 022349
SVSFSD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
650 PM CDT TUE MAY 2 2006
SDC077-030000-
/O.CAN.KFSD.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-060503T0015Z/
KINGSBURY SD-
650 PM CDT TUE MAY 2 2006
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR KINGSBURY COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM HAS WEAKENED AND EXITED THE COUNTY.
LAT...LON 4452 9714 4433 9714 4434 9731 4435 9733
4437 9733 4438 9731 4450 9731 4452 9730
$$
LIEBLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 25 min |
| May 2, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 25 min |
| May 2, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 31 min |
| May 2, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 25 min |
| May 2, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Brookings | 17 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.