Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2008, 8:28 PM CDT for Lake County, Minnehaha County, Moody County, South Dakota. It was in force for 32 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 5, 2008, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2008, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Lake County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFSD 060127 TORFSD SDC079-099-101-060200- /O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0023.080606T0128Z-080606T0200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 828 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LAKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA SOUTHWESTERN MOODY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA CENTRAL MINNEHAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 828 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF HARTFORD...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 42 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... COLTON AROUND 835 PM CDT... CHESTER AROUND 845 PM CDT... THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4395 9693 4387 9672 4361 9692 4364 9705 TIME...MOT...LOC 0128Z 204DEG 37KT 4370 9697 $$ CJ
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KFSD 060143 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 843 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2008 SDC079-060153- /O.CAN.KFSD.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-080606T0200Z/ LAKE SD- 843 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2008 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN LAKE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4390 9681 4387 9672 4374 9683 4379 9686 TIME...MOT...LOC 0143Z 204DEG 37KT 4381 9680 $$ SDC099-101-060200- /O.CON.KFSD.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-080606T0200Z/ MOODY SD-MINNEHAHA SD- 843 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL MINNEHAHA AND SOUTHWESTERN MOODY COUNTIES... AT 843 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 17 MILES NORTH OF SIOUX FALLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 43 MPH. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4390 9681 4387 9672 4374 9683 4379 9686 TIME...MOT...LOC 0143Z 204DEG 37KT 4381 9680 $$ CJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Hutchinson, Yankton | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, McCook, Miner, Minnehaha | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 7:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 14 more | 12 hr |
| Jun 5, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook, Minnehaha, Turner | 37 min |
| Jun 5, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lake, Minnehaha | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha, Turner | 23 min |
| Jun 5, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Minnehaha, Moody | 20 min |
| Jun 5, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Moody | 34 min |
| Jun 6, 6:40 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | McCook | 5 days |
| Jun 6, 6:45 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Davison, Hanson | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 11:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Douglas, Hanson, Hutchinson, McCook | 24 hr |
| Jun 6, 4:34 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Davison | 4 days |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.