Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2007, 8:27 PM CDT for Beadle County, South Dakota. It was in force for 12 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, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2007, 8:39 PM CDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Beadle County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 8:36 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 Nw Wolsey, SD |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 316 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 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 060128 TORFSD SDC005-060200- /O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0034.070506T0127Z-070506T0200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 827 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN BEADLE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 827 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VIRGIL...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HURON...MOVING NORTH AT 60 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... WOLSEY AROUND 835 PM CDT... THIS REPLACES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4420 9861 4420 9844 4463 9836 4463 9858 $$ CHAPMAN
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KFSD 060139 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 839 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007 SDC005-060149- /O.CAN.KFSD.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-070506T0200Z/ BEADLE SD- 839 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN BEADLE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER SEVERE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4420 9861 4420 9844 4463 9836 4463 9858 $$ CHAPMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | McCook | 27 min |
| May 5, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle | 25 min |
| May 5, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brule, Charles Mix, Gregory | 51 min |
| May 5, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Jerauld | 36 min |
| May 5, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora, Jerauld | 37 min |
| May 5, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Hanson, McCook, Miner | 34 min |
| May 5, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle | 52 min |
| May 5, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle | 17 min |
| May 5, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Kingsbury, Miner | 28 min |
| May 5, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Gregory | 52 min |
| May 5, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Jerauld | 34 min |
| May 5, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brule, Charles Mix | 44 min |
| May 5, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle | 40 min |
| May 5, 9:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Brule | 112 min |
| May 5, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle | 24 min |
| May 5, 10:46 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | FSD | Brookings, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Moody | 8 hr |
| May 5, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Yankton | 32 min |
| May 5, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Yankton | 37 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.