Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 463
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2008, 12:04 PM CDT for 8 counties in Minnesota; 18 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2008, 12:04 PM CDT (17:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2008, 5:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 50 kt
All 26 counties
Cottonwood County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Rock County, MN, Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Brule County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Davison County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, McCook County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Sanborn County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:07 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson, McCook, Turner | 31 min |
| Jun 5, 12:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Nobles, Rock | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Rock | 29 min |
| Jun 5, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, McCook, Miner | 30 min |
| Jun 5, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Nobles | 25 min |
| Jun 5, 1:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 1:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 1:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Murray, Nobles | 29 min |
| Jun 5, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Nobles, Rock | 26 min |
| Jun 5, 3:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Douglas, Gregory, Hutchinson | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Gregory | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 4:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Brule, Jerauld | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Gregory | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Douglas, Hutchinson | 37 min |
| Jun 5, 5:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Aurora, Davison, Jerauld, Sanborn | 119 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clinton, Jackson, Scott | 8 hr |
| Jun 4, 7:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 8:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 9:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 60 more | 87 min |
| Jun 4, 11:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, Taylor | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 11:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 64 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 1:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Winneshiek | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 84 min |
| Jun 5, 4:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Cedar, Clarke and 33 more | 94 min |
| Jun 5, 4:59 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry, Iowa and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 6:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Jackson, Johnson, Muscatine, Scott | 119 min |
| Jun 5, 10:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux and 1 more | 94 min |
| Jun 5, 10:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 85 min |
| Jun 5, 10:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Fremont and 15 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon, Osceola | 59 min |
| Jun 5, 5:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 39 more | 95 min |
| Jun 5, 5:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lyon | 91 min |
| Jun 5, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 44 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 5:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Boone, Buffalo, Chase, Custer, Dawson and 29 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 5, 5:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Chase, Custer, Dawson, Dundy, Frontier and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 7:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Custer, Dawson, Dundy, Frontier, Furnas and 8 more | 67 min |
| Jun 5, 11:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Hayes, Hitchcock, Perkins | 67 min |
| Jun 5, 12:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Buffalo, Burt and 52 more | 91 min |
| Jun 5, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Buffalo and 21 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Richardson | 37 min |
| Jun 5, 6:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 53 min |
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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.