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High Wind Warning 3, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

May 6, 20074 counties in Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this high wind warning at May 6, 2007, 8:13 AM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 6, 2007, 8:13 AM CDT (13:13 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 2007, 12:00 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD

Counties Cottonwood County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:16 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 175 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2007-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2007-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 381 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1733 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
381 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
369 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS73 KFSD 061313
NPWFSD

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
813 AM CDT SUN MAY 6 2007

.STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED ALONG THE BACK EDGE OF A LARGE COMPLEX
OF THUNDERSTORMS PUSHING EAST.

MNZ072-080-081-090-062115-
/O.NEW.KFSD.HW.W.0003.070506T1313Z-070507T1700Z/
LYON-MURRAY-COTTONWOOD-JACKSON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MARSHALL...SLAYTON...FULDA...WINDOM...
MOUNTAIN LAKE...JACKSON...LAKEFIELD
813 AM CDT SUN MAY 6 2007

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 PM CDT MONDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A HIGH
WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 PM CDT MONDAY. 

VERY STRONG EAST TO SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO
55 MPH ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE LATE MORNING HOURS.

A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED
OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS
OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE.

$$
BT
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS73 KFSD 061704
NPWFSD

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1204 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2007

MNZ072-080-081-090-061815-
/O.EXP.KFSD.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070506T1700Z/
LYON-MURRAY-COTTONWOOD-JACKSON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MARSHALL...SLAYTON...FULDA...WINDOM...
MOUNTAIN LAKE...JACKSON...LAKEFIELD
1204 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2007

...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED...

THE HIGH WIND WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. 

THE CORRIDOR OF STRONGEST WINDS CONTINUES TO SHIFT OFF TO THE EAST
INTO CENTRAL IOWA AND MINNESOTA. THEREFORE...THE HIGH WIND WARNING
IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. 

$$

BT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 10:46 PM CDTHigh Wind WarningFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more8 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Minnesota, 2007Every high wind warning in 2007

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.