Alert archive / South Dakota / Flash Flood Watches in 2010
Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this flash flood watch at Jun 22, 2010, 11:21 AM CDT for 16 counties in South Dakota; 11 counties in Iowa. It took effect at Jun 22, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2010, 11:21 AM CDT (16:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 22, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2010, 3:58 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Flood severity
- None
All 27 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, 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), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:19 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 324 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
- 806 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 22, 11:15 AM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 11:15 AM CDT, 6 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 11:21 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1121 AM CDT TUE JUN 22 2010 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-231200- 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- 1121 AM CDT TUE JUN 22 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP OVER NORTHWEST IOWA AND FAR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA IN A VERY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT. IF THE STORMS CAN DEVELOP...HAIL TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS AS WELL AS TORNADOES WILL BE A THREAT. THE MAIN THREAT FOR THESE STORMS WILL BE SOUTH OF A VERMILLION TO SPENCER IOWA LINE. TONIGHT...MAINLY AFTER 9 PM CDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AND MOVE INTO THE AREA. WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS WITH THESE STORMS. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE WEST OF INTERSTATE 29 AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 34 BEFORE MIDNIGHT AND ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATES 29 AND 90 AFTER MIDNIGHT. FLOODING... AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TONIGHT...WITH HEAVY RAIN A POSSIBILITY. AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90 IN SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA INTO NORTHWEST IOWA WILL SEE THE THREAT FOR ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN...ESPECIALLY IF A FEW AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS CAN DEVELOP...WHICH WOULD EXACERBATE THE PROBLEMS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS ALONG PARTS OF THE BIG SIOUX AND VERMILLION RIVERS IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...THOUGH RIVER LEVELS ARE SLOWLY FALLING IN MANY AREAS. THE JAMES RIVER WILL REMAIN IN FLOOD FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. AREAL FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS ALSO CONTINUES IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA BETWEEN THE JAMES RIVER AND MISSOURI RIVER...RESULTING IN NUMEROUS ROAD CLOSURES IN RURAL AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER 5 PM ACROSS NORTHWEST IOWA AND WEST OF THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY AFTER 5 PM...AND LIKELY ACROSS THE AREA AFTER 9 PM. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SIOUXFALLS. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in South Dakota, 2010Flash Flood Watches in Iowa, 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.