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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 10, 201016 counties in South Dakota; 11 counties in Iowa; Jackson County, Nobles County, Rock County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this flash flood watch at Jun 10, 2010, 3:20 PM CDT for 16 counties in South Dakota; 11 counties in Iowa; Jackson County, Nobles County, Rock County, Minnesota. It took effect at Jun 11, 2010, 12:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 2010, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 11, 2010, 12:00 AM CDT
Expired
Jun 11, 2010, 1:03 PM CDT
In force
13 hr
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Flood severity
None
All 30 counties

Buena Vista County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Clay County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Ida County, IA, Lyon County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Jackson County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Rock County, MN, Aurora County, SD, Bon Homme County, SD, Brule County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clay County, SD, Davison County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, McCook County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Turner County, SD, Union County, SD, Yankton County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 216 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2010-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 443 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2010-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 173 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
443 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
855 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
218 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Jun 10, 10:26 AM CDT, 4 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 10:26 AM CDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1026 AM CDT THU JUN 10 2010

.DISCUSSION...
THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED AS STORMS HAVE WEAKENED ACROSS
THE AREA. MCS TO EXIT THE AREA THE REST OF THIS MORNING. ON THE
BACKSIDE OF THE MSC WINDS BECOME QUITE STRONG ASSOCIATED WITH A WAKE
LOW. WILL SEE WINDS GUSTING TO 50 MPH...MAYBE SLIGHTLY HIGHER. HAVE
ISSUED A SHORT LIVED WIND ADVISORY FOR THIS MORNING AND EARLY
AFTERNOON.  /97

&&

.AVIATION...
THUNDERSTORMS EXITING THE AREA THIS MORNING. CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORM
WILL AGAIN INCREASE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE WILL BE A
SHORT PERIOD OF SFC WINDS 35 TO 45 KTS LATE THIS MORNING AND EARLY
AFTERNOON ALONG AND EAST ON INTERSTATE 29. WINDS WILL DECREASE BUT
REMAIN AT 15 TO 20 KTS THROUGH THE REST OF THE DAY. /97

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION...
LARGE AND ORGANIZED MCS ROLLING ACRS NEBRASKA THIS MORNING...NUDGING
INTO FAR SRN SD. MCS IS LOCATED IN THE MAX OF MOISTURE TRANSPORT
AXIS FROM 925-850 HPA...COLLOCATED WITH STRONGEST AXIS OF LLJ. MOST
OPERATIONAL GUIDANCE HAS HAD A SIGNIFICANT NORTH BIAS WITH AXIS OF
PRECIP...BUT AGAIN THE RAPID REFRESH RUC HAS HAD AN EXCELLENT HANDLE
ON THE CONVECTIVE MODE/LOCATION WITH 03Z-06Z RUNS...AND LENDS
CONFIDENCE TO THE SHORT RANGE FCST. HOWEVER...CHALLENGE INCREASES TO
NEARLY EVERY FCST ELEMENT AS CONVECTION IN MODELS REALLY LIMIT
USEFULNESS TO DIAGNOSE THE SVR ENVIRONMENT TODAY...AS WELL AS
BOUNDARY LOCATION FOR THERMAL FCST AND CONVECTIVE REDEVELOPMENT.

MCS WL CONTINUE TO ROLL GENERALLY EWRD THIS MORNING BASED ON CORFIDI
VECTORS...BUT THERE IS INCREASING LLJ SUPPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT OF WAA
WING INTO MUCH OF CWA IN THE EARLY TO MID MORNING AS WAVE TRAVERSING
RIDGE INDUCES A VEERING TO LLJ. SPED UP POPS...AND INCREASED MOST OF
THE W AND S TO 100...SPREADING CATEGORICAL PD EWRD WITH UPR PV
SUPPORT. HVY RAIN A THREAT EARLY TO MID MORNING THRU THE MO RVR
CORRIDOR...BUT WITH MAIN CONVECTIVE FRONT PUSHING SWRD AND SPREADING
COLD POOL MORE TO S THAN GUIDANCE SUGGESTS INTO LLJ...LKLY WL KEEP
THE PERSISTENT NEWER DEVELOPMENT MAINLY TO S OF AREA. CANNOT RULE
OUT AN ISOLD MARGINALLY SVR HAILER WANDERING TOWARD LOWER MO RVR
CORRIDOR THROUGH MID MORNING AS 7-8C/KM MID LVL LAPSE RATES PUSH
INTO THE AREA. WL CERTAINLY HAVE TO KEEP EYE ON ESPLY URBAN KSUX
AREA FOR FLOODING THREAT IF WAA CAN DEVELOP MORE STOUTLY HEADING
TOWARD DAYBREAK. OTHERWISE...LOOK FOR A LITTLE DROPOFF IN COVERAGE
AND EXTENT OF CONVECTION BY AFTN. TEMPS CHALLENGING AS WL BE DEALING
WITH STUBBORN RAIN COOLED AIRMASS FOR MUCH OF THE DAY...AND EXPECT
WL LIMIT RECOVERY BY QUITE A BIT. ALREADY IN LOWER 70S TOWARD I80...
SO NOT TOO FAR TO GO TO REACH EXPECTED KSUX HIGH ARND 80. HARD TO
GAIN A LOT OF CONFIDENCE IN WHERE LOW LVL BNDRY WL END UP PUSHING
INTO SUCH STRONG SLY FLOW.  BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS EXPECTED AS
LLJ AND POST MCS GRADIENT ALLOWS WINDS TO SFC LATER THIS
MORNING/AFTN.

NEXT CHALLENGE IS THE SVR THREAT TDA.  WITH SOME INDICATION OF MID
LVL RIDGING BETWEEN SYSTEMS...LKLY THAT ACTIVITY WL BE SOMEWHAT SLOW
TO DEVELOP TDA...ESPLY CONSIDERING LKLY LIMIT TO SFC BASED
DESTABILIZATION IN AND NEAR AREA. SHUD EFFECTIVELY CAP MOST AREAS TO
DEVELOPMENT UNTIL WAVE CAN APPROACH THE AREA FROM THE SOUTHWEST BY
LATER INTO THE EVENING...AND GET START OF LLJ INCREASE AND REFOCUS
TO THE W. ELEVATED CAPE INCREASES TO 1500-2000 J/KG OVER MUCH OF THE
AREA TONIGHT. WITH DEEP LYR SHEAR ON ORDER OF 35-45 KTS...EXPECT
ORGANIZATION OF SYSTEM

BEST THREAT FOR SVR WX LKLY STARTS AS MORE ISOLD HAIL THREAT IN THE
SCNTRL/MID JAMES VALLEY AREAS BY EARLY TO MID EVENING...THEN SPREADS
EWRD FROM LATE EVENING INTO THE EARLY OVERNIGHT HOURS WITH LLJ FOCUS.
WL LKLY SEE A TRANSITION TOWARD MORE OF A WIND THREAT...BUT ELEVATED
INSTABILITY INDICATES THAT HAIL...AND PERHAPS A WIND DRIVEN HAIL
THREAT WL EXIST NEAR ANY ORGANIZED VORTEX ALG LEADING DEVELOPMENT
LINE.  PROBABLY A LARGER AND MORE DEFINITE CONCERN IS FOR HVY
RAINFALL...WITH NEAR OR BETTER THAN 1.75 INCH PWAT...AND HPC HAS
PLACED A SLIGHT RISK OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OVER ABOUT THE NERN 2/3
OF CWA THRU TONIGHT. WITH SOMEWHAT A LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN WHERE
HEAVIEST RAIN MAY SET UP...HELD OFF ON ISSUING A FLASH FLOOD WATCH
AT THIS TIME...BUT DID MENTION SOME HVY RAIN FAVORING THE NWRN
AREAS.

ALL THE CONVECTION SHUD START TO GIVE SFC BNDRY A DECENT KICK BY
LATER TONIGHT. SVRL SLNS...CONSISTENT WITH INDIVIDUAL JET
STRUCTURES...WOULD SUGGEST THAT WHILE SFC BNDRY MAY CONTINUE SWRD
EVENTUALLY REACHING KS/MO AREAS BY SAT...THE 850 HPA BNDRY ATCUALLY
TRIES TO STALL VERY NEAR SERN CWA RIGHT INTO SUNDAY. WL BE IN PLACE
AS FAIRLY STRONG WAVE PUSHES UP INTO THE AREA FRI NIGHT INTO SAT...
REMAINING CONSISTENT WITH EARLIER FCST.  THIS SHUD INDUCE ANOTHER
PULSE OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY...WITH INSTABILITY REMAINING ALFT.

DETAILS GET HARDER AND HARDER TO JUSTIFY AS MODELS GET CONVECTIVELY
WORKED OVER...AND THUS CHANGES TO FCST ARE LESS AND LESS BY THE
WEEKEND. WL HOLD ONTO SAT NIGHT INTO SUNDAY AS QUIET TIME WITH
RIDGING ALFT AHEAD OF CLOSED LOW IN SW MOVING TOWARD PLAINS...
AND GET SOME PUSH OF MORE STABLE LOW LVL AIR ON SFC RIDGE FM N.
AS MUCH AS DIDNT WANT TO...INTRODUCED A SMALL CHC POPS FOR SUN NIGHT
INTO MONDAY AS SLNS SHOWING VARIETY OF TROUGHING STRUCTURES PUSHING
INTO AREA... WHILE FIGHTING THE LOW LVL DRYING PUSH...DO HAVE ENOUGH
SUPPORT FROM COOLING AFLT AND INSTABILITY TO DRIVE SOME SHRA/TRSA
THRU THE AREA.

/CHAPMAN

&&

.FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IA...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 2 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR IAZ001>003-
012>014.

MN...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 2 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR MNZ071-072-080-
     081-089-090-097-098.

NE...NONE.
SD...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL NOON CDT TODAY FOR SDZ039-040-054>056-
     060>062-065>067.

&&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 11:56 AM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 9:22 AM CDTWind AdvisoryFSDBrookings, Hanson, Hutchinson, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln and 5 more5 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in South Dakota, 2010Flash Flood Watches in Iowa, 2010Flash Flood Watches in Minnesota, 2010Every flash flood watch in 2010

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.