Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at May 1, 2008, 7:08 PM CDT for Turner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 29 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
- May 1, 2008, 7:08 PM CDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2008, 7:37 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Turner County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 4:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1220 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 338 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFSD 020008 TORFSD SDC125-020045- /O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0006.080502T0008Z-080502T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 708 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL TURNER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 708 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PARKER...OR NEAR PARKER...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 16 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MARION AROUND 730 PM CDT... MONROE AROUND 735 PM CDT... AT 703 PM CDT...STRONG ROTATION WAS REPORTED A HALF MILE NORTH OF HURLEY. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4350 9734 4349 9702 4331 9707 4331 9726 TIME...MOT...LOC 0008Z 125DEG 13KT 4335 9719 $$ LIEBL
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KFSD 020037 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 737 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008 SDC125-020047- /O.CAN.KFSD.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-080502T0045Z/ TURNER SD- 737 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL TURNER COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4350 9734 4349 9702 4331 9707 4331 9726 TIME...MOT...LOC 0037Z 125DEG 13KT 4341 9731 $$ LIEBL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook, Minnehaha, Turner | 44 min |
| May 1, 7:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha | 23 min |
| May 1, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | McCook, Minnehaha, Turner | 35 min |
| May 1, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 33 min |
| May 1, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 30 min |
| May 1, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha, Moody | 24 min |
| May 1, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 14 min |
| May 1, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle, Sanborn | 36 min |
| May 1, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle, Jerauld | 21 min |
| May 2, 2:48 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Union | 18 hr |
| May 2, 2:48 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Union | 18 hr |
| May 2, 3:49 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more | 12 hr |
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.