Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2008, 7:02 PM CDT for Jackson County, Minnesota; Dickinson County, Iowa. It was in force for 28 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 11, 2008, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2008, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Dickinson County, IA, Jackson County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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 11, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 574 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 740 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFSD 120002 TORFSD IAC059-MNC063-120030- /O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0039.080612T0002Z-080612T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 702 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN DICKINSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA SOUTH CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 702 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF LAKE PARK...OR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPIRIT LAKE...MOVING NORTH AT 29 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LAKE PARK AROUND 715 PM CDT... THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4357 9534 4354 9508 4328 9525 4332 9540 TIME...MOT...LOC 0002Z 197DEG 26KT 4336 9531 $$ CHAPMAN
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFSD 120014 RRA SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 714 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2008 IAC059-MNC063-120030- /O.CON.KFSD.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-080612T0030Z/ DICKINSON IA-JACKSON MN- 714 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL JACKSON AND WESTERN DICKINSON COUNTIES... AT 714 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES EAST OF LAKE PARK...OR 7 MILES WEST OF SPIRIT LAKE...MOVING NORTH AT 36 MPH. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4357 9534 4354 9508 4328 9525 4332 9540 TIME...MOT...LOC 0014Z 202DEG 32KT 4345 9524 $$ CHAPMAN
000 WWUS53 KFSD 120030 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 729 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2008 IAC021-120045- /O.CON.KFSD.TO.W.0041.000000T0000Z-080612T0045Z/ BUENA VISTA IA- 729 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR BUENA VISTA COUNTY... AT 729 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS. THESE TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARATHON TO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKESIDE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 18 MILES SOUTH OF SPENCER TO NEAR STORM LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS WILL BE NEAR... ALBERT CITY AROUND 740 PM CDT... NEWELL AROUND 745 PM CDT... THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4291 9493 4256 9493 4257 9538 4291 9529 TIME...MOT...LOC 0029Z 270DEG 31KT 4290 9498 4260 9518 $$ RSR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cottonwood | 25 min |
| Jun 12, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Rock | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Buena Vista | 30 min |
| Jun 11, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Clay | 25 min |
| Jun 11, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Ida | 35 min |
| Jun 11, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 26 min |
| Jun 11, 11:08 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Cherokee | 5 days |
| Jun 12, 9:39 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Clay, O'Brien | 60 hr |
| Jun 12, 9:39 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Dickinson | 4 days |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2008Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 2008Every tornado warning in 2008Tornadoes 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.