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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

March 30, 2007Cherokee County, Iowa

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2007, 5:46 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Iowa. It was in force for 44 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
Mar 30, 2007, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired
Mar 30, 2007, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cherokee County, IA

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 12:00Z on 2007-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 28 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2007-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 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
28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 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 
WFUS53 KFSD 302247
TORFSD
IAC035-302330-
/O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0001.070330T2246Z-070330T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
546 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 546 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A BRIEF TORNADO FROM NEAR MARCUS
  TO 8 MILES WEST OF QUIMBY.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MARCUS... 
CLEGHORN... CHEROKEE...LARRABEE AND AURELIA

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.

LAT...LON 4286 9586 4257 9586 4261 9541 4291 9541

$$

08
2 follow-up statements
000 
WWUS53 KFSD 302258
SVSFSD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
557 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007

IAC035-302330-
/O.CON.KFSD.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070330T2330Z/
CHEROKEE IA-
557 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR CHEROKEE
COUNTY...

AT 557 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A BRIEF TORNADO.  THESE TORNADO
PRODUCING STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM MARCUS TO 8
MILES WEST OF QUIMBY...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES EAST
OF LE MARS TO 23 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LE MARS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 
MPH. 

MULTIPLE FUNNELS HAVE BEEN REPORTED ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF 
CHEROKEE COUNTY. IT IS VERY LIKELY THAT THESE FUNNELS HAVE OR WILL 
BRIEFLY TOUCH THE GROUND.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.

LAT...LON 4286 9586 4257 9586 4261 9541 4291 9541

$$

08
000 
WWUS53 KFSD 302330
SVSFSD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
630 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007

IAC035-302340-
/O.CAN.KFSD.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070330T2330Z/
CHEROKEE IA-
630 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CHEROKEE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

LAT...LON 4286 9586 4257 9586 4261 9541 4291 9541

$$

08

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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.