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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

April 24, 2010Hanson County, Lake County, McCook County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2010, 2:44 PM CDT for Hanson County, Lake County, McCook County, South Dakota. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 24, 2010, 2:44 PM CDT (19:44 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 2010, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
58.0 mph

Counties Hanson County, SD, Lake County, SD, McCook County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 146 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2010-04-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2010-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
461 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 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 severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 24, 11:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 11:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 24, 2:21 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
221 PM CDT SAT APR 24 2010

SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-
IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-251200-
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-
221 PM CDT SAT APR 24 2010

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF
QUARTERS OR SLIGHTLY LARGER IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...PARTS OF
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA NEAR I 90...NORTHWEST IOWA AND EXTREME
NORTHEAST NEBRASKA THROUGH EARLY EVENING. BY SUNSET...THE
ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME MORE STABLE..GREATLY REDUCING THE SEVERE
WEATHER THREAT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM 3 TO 8 PM IN THE
AFOREMENTIONED AREAS ABOVE.

&&

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 24, 2:37 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
237 PM CDT SAT APR 24 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0218 PM     HAIL             5 SW MARION             43.38N 97.34W
04/24/2010  E1.00 INCH       TURNER             SD   PUBLIC

            GROUND COVERED WITH HAIL MOSTLY PEA TO DIME SIZED, BUT
            SOME UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS.

&&

TRM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 24, 2:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHanson, Hutchinson, McCook, Turner50 min
Apr 24, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha24 min
Apr 24, 5:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDMinnehaha2 hr
Apr 24, 5:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDMinnehaha102 min
Apr 24, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha28 min
Apr 24, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon26 min
Apr 24, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon38 min
Apr 24, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon35 min
Apr 24, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDRock31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.