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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 21, 2007Charles Mix County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 2007, 10:51 PM CDT for Charles Mix County, South Dakota. It was in force for 24 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 21, 2007, 10:51 PM CDT (03:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 2007, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Charles Mix County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:53 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 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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 00:00Z on 2007-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1036 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 00:00Z on 2007-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 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
1036 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1463 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KFSD 220351
TORFSD
SDC023-220415-
/O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0038.070622T0351Z-070622T0415Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1051 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL CHARLES MIX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 1051 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EAST
  CENTRAL CHARLES MIX COUNTY...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF LAKE
  ANDES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL CHARLES MIX COUNTY THROUGH 1115 PM CDT

TAKE COVER NOW. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. IT MAY BE TOO LATE.

LAT...LON 4321 9837 4303 9822 4316 9811 4321 9815

$$

CJ
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KFSD 220411
SVSFSD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1111 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2007

SDC023-220421-
/O.EXP.KFSD.TO.W.0038.000000T0000Z-070622T0415Z/
CHARLES MIX SD-
1111 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL CHARLES MIX COUNTY EXPIRES AT
1115 PM CDT...

THE STORM IS NO LONGER SEVERE.

LAT...LON 4321 9837 4303 9822 4316 9811 4321 9815

$$

CJ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDGregory45 min
Jun 21, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix, Gregory49 min
Jun 21, 9:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDGregory90 min
Jun 21, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix46 min
Jun 21, 10:18 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDCharles Mix, Douglas87 min
Jun 21, 11:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBon Homme23 min
Jun 21, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHutchinson35 min
Jun 21, 11:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDTurner36 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, 2007Every tornado warning in 2007Tornadoes 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.