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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 2, 2007Lincoln County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2007, 5:33 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 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
Jun 2, 2007, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2007, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lincoln County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 173 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2007-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2007-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
666 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 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 022233
TORFSD
MNC081-022300-
/O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0036.070602T2233Z-070602T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
533 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 533 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 8
  MILES NORTH OF LAKE BENTON...OR ABOUT 23 MILES EAST OF BROOKINGS...
  MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
   RURAL AREAS NORTH OF LAKE BENTON THROUGH 600 PM CDT...

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

LAT...LON 4446 9630 4444 9642 4425 9645 4425 9626

$$

CHAPMAN
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KFSD 022258
SVSFSD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
557 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 2007

MNC081-022307-
/O.EXP.KFSD.TO.W.0036.000000T0000Z-070602T2300Z/
LINCOLN MN-
557 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY EXPIRES AT 600 PM
CDT...

THE STORM IS NO LONGER SEVERE...LOCATED JUST NORTHWEST OF LAKE 
BENTON.  BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND PEA SIZE HAIL IS LIKELY NEAR LAKE 
BENTON THROUGH 615 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 4446 9630 4444 9642 4425 9645 4425 9626

$$

CHAPMAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 6:23 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon37 min

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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.