Alert archive / Iowa / High Wind Warnings in 2008
High Wind Warning 3, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this high wind warning at Jun 4, 2008, 11:02 PM CDT for Dakota County, Nebraska; Ida County, Woodbury County, Iowa. It was in force for 96 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2008, 11:02 PM CDT (04:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2008, 12:38 AM CDT
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Counties Ida County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Dakota County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 2024 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.7
- Supercell composite
- 18.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KFSD 050402 NPWFSD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1102 PM CDT WED JUN 4 2008 .HIGH WINDS WILL BE FOUND BEHIND A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NEAR TERM...FROM NEAR SOUTH SIOUX CITY TO IDA COUNTY. IAZ031-032-NEZ014-050600- /O.NEW.KFSD.HW.W.0003.080605T0402Z-080605T0600Z/ WOODBURY-IDA-DAKOTA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SIOUX CITY...IDA GROVE...HOLSTEIN... BATTLE CREEK...SOUTH SIOUX CITY 1102 PM CDT WED JUN 4 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT THURSDAY. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING EASTWARD AT 35 MPH THROUGH THIS AREA. HIGH WINDS WILL BE FOUND BEHIND THIS LINE AWAY FROM THE STORMS ITSELF...WITH A RECENT GUST TO 56 MPH AT SIOUX CITY NEAR 11 PM. AFTER THE LINE OF STORMS PASS FURTHER TO THE EAST...THE THREAT FOR THE HIGH WINDS WILL ABATE AFTER 1 AM. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. $$ MJF
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KFSD 050538 NPWFSD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1238 AM CDT THU JUN 5 2008 IAZ031-032-NEZ014-050645- /O.CAN.KFSD.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-080605T0600Z/ WOODBURY-IDA-DAKOTA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SIOUX CITY...IDA GROVE...HOLSTEIN... BATTLE CREEK...SOUTH SIOUX CITY 1238 AM CDT THU JUN 5 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. ANY HIGH WINDS ARE OVER FOR THE TIME BEING. IF STORMS MOVE INTO THIS AREA LATE TONIGHT...CONDITIONS WILL BE MONITORED FOR SEVERE WEATHER INCLUDING HIGH WINDS OR LARGE HAIL. $$ MJF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 10:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Dakota, Dixon | 11 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dakota | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 12:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Dixon | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dixon | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 29 min |
| Jun 5, 12:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 27 min |
| Jun 5, 12:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 12:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, O'Brien, Plymouth, Sioux | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 25 min |
| Jun 5, 1:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon, Osceola | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 26 min |
| Jun 5, 3:49 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Lyon | 67 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Iowa, 2008High Wind Warnings in Nebraska, 2008Every high wind warning in 2008
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.