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Flood Watch 1, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

March 24, 20076 counties in Iowa

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this flood watch at Mar 24, 2007, 3:33 AM CDT for 6 counties in Iowa. It took effect at Mar 24, 2007, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 24, 2007, 3:33 AM CDT (08:33 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 24, 2007, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired
Mar 24, 2007, 4:39 PM CDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Flood severity
None

Counties Buena Vista County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Clay County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Ida County, IA, Woodbury County, IA

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:37 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 180 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2007-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 112 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2007-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1106 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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.