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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

May 5, 2007Kingsbury County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2007, 5:46 PM CDT for Kingsbury County, South Dakota. It was in force for 13 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: May 5, 2007, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2007, 5:59 PM CDT
In force: 13 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), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
May 5, 6:00 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 65	1 S Bancroft, SD	3-4 INCH BRANCHES DOWN IN YARD

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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 5, 4:33 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 73 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 302 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KFSD 052246
SVRFSD
SDC077-052315-
/O.NEW.KFSD.SV.W.0063.070505T2246Z-070505T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
546 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN KINGSBURY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 546 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.
  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BANCROFT...OR ABOUT 22
  MILES EAST OF HURON...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
  INDICATED COUNTY.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING 
FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4436 9784 4436 9769 4453 9755 4453 9784

$$

PS/JC

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KFSD 052259
SVSFSD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
559 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007

SDC077-052309-
/O.CAN.KFSD.SV.W.0063.000000T0000Z-070505T2315Z/
KINGSBURY SD-
559 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN KINGSBURY COUNTY
IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM HAS EXITED THE COUNTY.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING 
FOR SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4436 9784 4436 9769 4453 9755 4453 9784

$$

PS/JC

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 5, 5:05 PM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 5:05 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
505 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007

.DISCUSSION...

STG AND DEEP SSELY FLOW OF VERY MOIST UNSTABLE AIR PULLING E/W WMFNT
NWD INTO FAR SRN CWA ATTM...AND SHOULD MOVE NORTH MAYBE PAST I90
LATER TNGT. VARIOUS WAVES ALOFT ROTATING NNE AROUND STG UPR TROF IN
ERN RCKYS...WILL CONTINUE TO GENERATE TSTMS...SOME SVR/HVY...WITH
CELLS MOVG NWD AND AREA EVENTUALLY ENEWD OVR CWA TNGT...CONTINUING
THRU SUN NGT. MAIN SVR THREAT ALG AND WEST OF I29 TNGT...SHIFTING
A LIT FURTHER EAST SUN AFTN AND EVE AS LOW LVL FOCUS SHIFTS EAST.
SHEAR IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO INCREASE ACROSS THE WESTERN PLAINS AS
SYSTEM TO THE WEST CONTINUES TO GET WOUND UP. AS STORMS BECOME
SURFACE BASED LATE THIS AFTERNOON...EXPECT TORNADO THREAT TO
CONTINUE THROUGH LATE EVENING HOURS. BOUNDARY LAYER WILL HAVE A HARD
TIME DECOUPLING TONIGHT...BUT EXPECT THREAT TO GRADUALLY EVOLVE INTO
MORE OF A HEAVY RAIN THREAT AFTER MIDNIGHT. WILL KEEP FLOOD WATCH
GOING TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW. NAM SEEMS TOO SLOW MOVG BOUNDARY EAST
AND FASTER GFS LOOKS BTR. DEFINITELY KEPT FLOOD WATCH IN ONGOING
AREA WITH SATURATED GROUND AND GENERAL ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4
INCHES RAINFALL EXPCD.  OVERALL PREV FCST THRU EXTD IN THE BALLPARK
WITH FAIRLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS FOR NOW...BUT SURE TO BE IN A STATE OF
FLUX AS NRN STREAM BATTLES SRN STREAM FOR DOMINANCE.

&&

.AVIATION...
LOW PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO INTENSITY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...
PRODUCING VERY STRONG SRLY FLOW. SOUTHERLY WINDS IN EXCESS OF
40 KTS ARE LIKELY BY EARLY EVENING ONLY A FEW THOUSAND FEET ABOVE
THE GROUND. THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS
EVENING...SOME PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND TORNADOES.

&&

.FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IA...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH MONDAY MORNING FOR IAZ001-012-020-031.

MN...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH MONDAY MORNING FOR MNZ071-097-098.

NE...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH MONDAY MORNING FOR NEZ013-014.

SD...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH MONDAY MORNING FOR SDZ039-040-054>056-061-
     062-066-067-069>071.

     FLOOD WATCH THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR SDZ038-050-052-053-
     057>060-063>065-068.

&&

RYRHOLM

Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 4:09 AM CDT, 13 hours 37 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
409 AM CDT SAT MAY 05 2007

SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-
IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-061200-
AURORA-BEADLE-BON HOMME-BROOKINGS-BRULE-BUENA VISTA IA-
CHARLES MIX-CHEROKEE IA-CLAY-CLAY IA-COTTONWOOD MN-DAKOTA NE-
DAVISON-DICKINSON IA-DIXON NE-DOUGLAS-GREGORY-HANSON-HUTCHINSON-
IDA IA-JACKSON MN-JERAULD-KINGSBURY-LAKE-LINCOLN-LINCOLN MN-
LYON IA-LYON MN-MCCOOK-MINER-MINNEHAHA-MOODY-MURRAY MN-NOBLES MN-
OBRIEN IA-OSCEOLA IA-PIPESTONE MN-PLYMOUTH IA-ROCK MN-SANBORN-
SIOUX IA-TURNER-UNION-WOODBURY IA-YANKTON-
409 AM CDT SAT MAY 05 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS...
SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR MAINLY ALONG AND WEST
OF INTERSTATE 29 THIS MORNING. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO
BECOME SEVERE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON
AND OVERNIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE MAINLY
ALONG AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 29. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR
TORNADOES WILL BE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WEST OF A
HURON TO SIOUX CITY LINE.

FLOODING...
HEAVY RAINS WILL OCCUR AT TIMES THROUGH TONIGHT ALONG AND WEST OF
INTERSTATE 29.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA
ON SUNDAY. HOWEVER...THE MAIN THREAT ON SUNDAY WILL BE THE
POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY AFTER 4 PM ALONG AND WEST OF
THE
JAMES RIVER.
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER 6 PM BETWEEN INTERSTATE
29 AND
THE JAMES RIVER.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS
WEATHER OUTLOOK.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 5, 5:24 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
524 PM CDT SAT MAY 05 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0520 PM     TORNADO          3 SE MITCHELL           43.70N 97.99W
05/05/2007                   DAVISON            SD   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            MOVING NORTH

&&

DMORIN

Local storm report, May 5, 5:26 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
526 PM CDT SAT MAY 05 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0520 PM     TORNADO          S MITCHELL              43.73N 98.03W
05/05/2007                   DAVISON            SD   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            JUST SOUTH OF TOWN MOVING NORTH

&&

DMORIN

Local storm report, May 5, 5:33 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
533 PM CDT SAT MAY 05 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0520 PM     FLOOD            YANKTON                 42.89N 97.39W
05/05/2007                   YANKTON            SD   CO-OP OBSERVER

            AT LEAST 6 ROADS UNDER WATER IN TOWN

&&

DMORIN

Local storm report, May 5, 5:40 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
540 PM CDT SAT MAY 05 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0443 PM     TORNADO          7 NW TYNDALL            43.06N 97.96W
05/05/2007                   BON HOMME          SD   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TORNADO WITNESSED BY PUBLIC. LAW ENFORCEMENT SURVEYED
            DAMAGE. TWO FARMSTEADS...OUT BUILDINGS DESTROYED...POWER
            LINES DOWN...TREES UPROOTED...TOPS OF GRAIN BINS GONE.
            RESIDENTS TOOK SHELTER...AT THIS TIME EVERYONE REPORTED
            OKAY. PATH REPORTED TO BE FROM 6NW TO 8NW OF TYNDALL.
            TIME OF EVENT 1643-1650 HOURS.

&&

DMORIN

Local storm report, May 5, 5:44 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
544 PM CDT SAT MAY 05 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0541 PM     TORNADO          6 NW ALEXANDRIA         43.72N 97.86W
05/05/2007                   HANSON             SD   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TORNADO DAMAGE REPORTED 6 TO 7 MILES NW OF ALEXANDRIA

&&

DMORIN

Local storm report, May 5, 5:46 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
546 PM CDT SAT MAY 05 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0545 PM     HAIL             MITCHELL                43.73N 98.03W
05/05/2007  E1.75 INCH       DAVISON            SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SOUTHEAST SIDE OF TOWN ALONG RIVER ROAD

&&

DMORIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Hanson	35 min
May 4, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Hanson	32 min
May 4, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Hanson	25 min
May 4, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lake, Miner	33 min
May 4, 8:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Hanson	31 min
May 4, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Davison	26 min
May 4, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Davison, Sanborn	36 min
May 5, 12:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Beadle	3 hr
May 5, 5:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Union	19 min
May 5, 12:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln	31 min
May 5, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Yankton	30 min
May 5, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Minnehaha	47 min
May 5, 1:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Turner	38 min
May 5, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Yankton	15 min
May 5, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Yankton	39 min
May 5, 1:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Hutchinson, Yankton	3 hr
May 5, 2:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Hanson	4 hr
May 5, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lake, McCook, Miner	41 min
May 5, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Hanson	32 min
May 5, 3:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Miner	6 hr
May 5, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Hanson, McCook, Miner	44 min
May 5, 3:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Miner	24 min
May 5, 3:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Bon Homme	54 min
May 5, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Hanson	32 min
May 5, 4:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Beadle, Kingsbury, Sanborn	6 hr
May 5, 4:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Hanson, Miner	37 min
May 5, 4:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Gregory	50 min
May 5, 4:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Davison	26 min
May 5, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	36 min
May 5, 4:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Hutchinson	37 min
May 5, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Miner	15 min
May 5, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Bon Homme	21 min
May 5, 4:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Hutchinson, Yankton	6 hr
May 5, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Sanborn	31 min
May 5, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Gregory	30 min
May 5, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Hanson	47 min
May 5, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Hutchinson	19 min
May 5, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle, Kingsbury	23 min
May 5, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Davison	36 min
May 5, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Yankton	47 min
May 5, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Douglas	16 min
May 5, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Yankton	36 min
May 5, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Aurora	49 min
May 5, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Gregory	25 min
May 5, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Hanson, Miner, Sanborn	29 min
May 5, 6:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Aurora, Jerauld	39 min
May 5, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Charles Mix, Gregory	34 min
May 5, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Hutchinson, Turner, Yankton	32 min
May 5, 6:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Brule	3 hr
May 5, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Brule	19 min
May 5, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Hutchinson, McCook	32 min
May 5, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Jerauld	30 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.