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Wind Advisory 15, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

October 2, 20094 counties in South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this wind advisory at Oct 2, 2009, 4:14 AM CDT for 4 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 2, 2009, 4:14 AM CDT (09:14 UTC)
Expired
Oct 2, 2009, 2:47 PM CDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD

Counties Bon Homme County, SD, Brule County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Gregory County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 286 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2009-10-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2009-10-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2122 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Oct 1, 3:05 PM CDT, 13 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 1, 3:05 PM CDT, 13 hours 9 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 1, 6:17 AM CDT, 21 hours 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
617 AM CDT THU OCT 01 2009

SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-
IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-021200-
AURORA-BEADLE-BON HOMME-BROOKINGS-BRULE-BUENA VISTA IA-
CHARLES MIX-CHEROKEE IA-CLAY-CLAY IA-COTTONWOOD MN-DAKOTA NE-
DAVISON-DICKINSON IA-DIXON NE-DOUGLAS-GREGORY-HANSON-HUTCHINSON-
IDA IA-JACKSON MN-JERAULD-KINGSBURY-LAKE-LINCOLN-LINCOLN MN-
LYON IA-LYON MN-MCCOOK-MINER-MINNEHAHA-MOODY-MURRAY MN-NOBLES MN-
OBRIEN IA-OSCEOLA IA-PIPESTONE MN-PLYMOUTH IA-ROCK MN-SANBORN-
SIOUX IA-TURNER-UNION-WOODBURY IA-YANKTON-
617 AM CDT THU OCT 01 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS...
SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON
EAST OF INTERSTATE 29.	THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE
SEVERE.

WIND AND FOG...
A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO SHIFT FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE
AREA TODAY.  NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE BEHIND THE
FRONT...WITH SUSTAINED WINDS APPROACHING 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS
IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AROUND 2 PM THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
THESE WINDS WILL SPREAD EAST INTO THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY BY EARLY
EVENING AND REMAIN ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM WESSINGTON
SPRINGS SOUTH DAKOTA TO SIOUX CITY IOWA THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST
THROUGH THE DAY TIME HOURS ON FRIDAY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM
WESSINGTON SPRINGS SOUTH DAKOTA TO SIOUX CITY IOWA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SIOUXFALLS. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS
WEATHER OUTLOOK.

BT

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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.