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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 26, 2010Lincoln County, Turner County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2010, 6:32 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Turner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 28 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: Jun 26, 2010, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Lincoln County, SD, Turner County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 26, 12:47 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jun 26, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 213 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 408 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -334 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1263 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -2 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 Jun 26, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
300 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010

.DISCUSSION...
SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK EXPECTED TONIGHT. STORMS
BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ALONG SEVERAL BOUNDARIES ACROSS THE AREA. MAIN
SURFACE WARM FRONT EXTENDING FROM NEAR LAKE ANDES TO MADISON TO
PIPESTONE TO SPIRIT LAKE. STORMS ALONG THIS LINE LATE THIS AFTERNOON
WILL CARRY THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE TORNADOES. EXTREME CAPE OF 4000-
5000 J/KG ALONG WITH MODERATE WIND SHEAR SHOULD PRODUCE POTENTIAL
FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES.

AS THE SYSTEM PASSES TONIGHT...DRIER AND SOMEWHAT COOLER AIR WILL
FILTER INTO THE REGION SUNDAY. NOT GOING TO ADD ANY SHOWERS...BUT
COULD SEE A PASSING SHOWER OR SPRINKLE IN MAINLY SW MN SUNDAY
AFTERNOON AS AN UPPER LEVEL WAVE SWINGS BY. OTHERWISE...A LITTLE
BREEZY WITH HIGHS IN THE 80S. AS THIS WAVE PASSES A SECONDARY COOL
FRONT WILL WORK SOUTH ON SUNDAY NIGHT AND SHOULD BRING ADDITIONAL
DRY AIR. DEW POINTS WILL LIKELY FALL INTO THE 50S FOR MONDAY AND
HIGHS WILL LIKELY BACK INTO THE UPPER 70S IN SW MN TO THE MID 80S IN
SC SD.

IN THE LATTER PERIODS(THU/SUN)...STILL LOOKING LIKE A VERY AMPLIFIED
RIDGE MOVING INTO THE AREA WITH SEASONAL CONDITIONS EXPECTED. SHOULD
BE DRY ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...WITH AN INCREASING THREAT FOR
THUNDERSTORMS AS THE RIDGE MOVES EAST AND A TROF DEVELOPS OVER THE
ROCKIES. CONFIDENCE NOT EXCEEDINGLY HIGH AT THIS TIME...SO WILL ONLY
ADD SOME 20 TO 30 POPS FOR SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY.

&&
.AVIATION...
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG A FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER
SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...MAINLY AFTER 20Z...PUSHING TO THE SOUTH
AND EAST THROUGH THE EVENING. THE EXCEPTION TO THIS WILL BE ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS THAT MAY BE POSSIBLE ALONG HIGHWAY 14 THROUGH EARLY
AFTERNOON. MVFR CIGS AND VISBYS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN ANY
THUNDERSTORMS ACTIVITY THAT OCCURS.

&&
.FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH LATE TONIGHT FOR IAZ001>003-012>014-
     021-022-032.

MN...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH LATE TONIGHT FOR MNZ071-072-080-081-
     089-090-097-098.

NE...NONE.
SD...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH LATE TONIGHT FOR
     SDZ039-040-054>056-060>062-065>067.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 11:21 AM CDT, 7 hours 11 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1121 AM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010

SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-
IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-271200-
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 SAT JUN 26 2010

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS...
THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE STORMS TODAY. ISOLATED STORMS
ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS MORNING INTO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON ALONG
HIGHWAY 14 FROM HURON TO BROOKINGS.  THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF PING PONG BALLS AND WIND GUSTS
IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  A WARM FRONT WILL DEVELOP ALONG HIGHWAY 34
OR JUST SLIGHTLY NORTH AND BECOME THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT AFTER 3PM.	THESE STORMS WILL QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE
PRODUCING LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS AND TORNADOES.
STORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG A COLD FRONT AFTER 4 PM ALONG A COLD
FRONT EXTENDING FROM MADISON TO LAKE ANDES.  THESE STORMS WILL
ALSO BE SEVERE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS AND
ISOLATED TORNADOES.  AS THESE STORMS SHIFT EAST....THEY ARE
EXPECTED TO EVOLVE INTO A SQUALL LINE WITH DAMAGING WIND OF 60 TO
80 MPH AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS.

FLOODING...
FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT SEVERAL
DAYS ALONG PARTS OF THE BIG SIOUX AND VERMILLION RIVERS IN
SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...AS WELL AS PORTIONS OF THE LITTLE SIOUX
RIVER IN NORTHWEST IOWA. THE JAMES RIVER WILL REMAIN IN FLOOD FOR
THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. AREAL FLOODING ALSO CONTINUES IN EAST
CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA FROM PREVIOUS HEAVY RAINFALL. ANY ADDITIONAL
RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS TODAY INTO TONIGHT MAY FURTHER AGGRAVATE
FLOODING CONDITIONS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED TONIGHT
FOR MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...SOUTHWEST
MINNESOTA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST IOWA FOR THIS ANTICIPATED
RAINFALL.

EXCESSIVE TEMPERATURES...
THE HEAT INDEX MAY APPROACH 105 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH
MUCH OF NORTHWEST IOWA...EXTREME SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...AND
EXTREME NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP OVER NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL
SOUTH DAKOTA SATURDAY AFTERNOON. STORMS ARE THEN EXPECTED TO MOVE
ACROSS SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...AND
NORTHWEST IOWA SATURDAY EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED
TO BE SEVERE...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL...STRONG
WINDS...AND TORNADOES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY THROUGH MIDNIGHT.

&&

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

BT

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 26, 6:02 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
602 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010

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

0554 PM     HAIL             4 S CANISTOTA           43.54N 97.29W
06/26/2010  E1.00 INCH       MCCOOK             SD   PUBLIC

            QUARTER SIZED HAIL WAS ACCOMPANIED BY WINDS ESTIMATED AT
            25 MPH.

&&

TRM

Local storm report, Jun 26, 6:05 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
605 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010

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

0602 PM     TORNADO          1 W CARTHAGE            44.17N 97.73W
06/26/2010                   MINER              SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

            RAIN WRAPPED TORNADO

&&

LAFLIN

Local storm report, Jun 26, 6:11 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
611 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010

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

0520 PM     TSTM WND DMG     TAUNTON                 44.59N 96.06W
06/26/2010                   LYON               MN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            POWER IS OUT AND LARGE TREE LIMBS ARE DOWN IN TAUNTON.

0550 PM     TSTM WND DMG     6 NW MARSHALL           44.51N 95.87W
06/26/2010                   LYON               MN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            VAN BLOWN OVER ON HIGHWAY 68 JUST SOUTHEAST OF GHENT.

&&

TRM

Local storm report, Jun 26, 6:17 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
617 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010

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

0552 PM     HAIL             CARTHAGE                44.17N 97.71W
06/26/2010  E1.50 INCH       MINER              SD   CO-OP OBSERVER

            PING PONG BALL SIZED HAIL LASTED FROM 552 PM TO 607 PM,
            CAUSING LOTS OF CAR DAMAGE WITH WINDS ESTIMATED AT 40
            MPH.

&&

TRM

Local storm report, Jun 26, 6:20 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
620 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010

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

0615 PM     TSTM WND GST     3 N WALL LAKE           43.57N 96.95W
06/26/2010  E60 MPH          MINNEHAHA          SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

            VERY STRONG WINDS ESTIMATED AT 60 MPH AND HEAVY RAIN.

&&

TRM

Local storm report, Jun 26, 6:31 PM CDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
631 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010

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

0622 PM     HAIL             1 NW HARTFORD           43.63N 96.96W
06/26/2010  E1.50 INCH       MINNEHAHA          SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

            IN ADDITION TO PING PONG BALL SIZED HAIL, THUNDERSTORM
            WIND GUSTS WERE ESTIMATED AT 65 MPH.

&&

TRM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 3:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	FSD	Brookings, Hanson, Hutchinson, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln and 5 more	24 hr
Jun 26, 11:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle	43 min
Jun 26, 11:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle	48 min
Jun 26, 12:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	49 min
Jun 26, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	35 min
Jun 26, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings, Kingsbury	32 min
Jun 26, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings	46 min
Jun 26, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	15 min
Jun 26, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Douglas, Hutchinson	26 min
Jun 26, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle	51 min
Jun 26, 4:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Beadle, Jerauld, Sanborn	3 hr
Jun 26, 4:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Hutchinson	34 min
Jun 26, 5:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Beadle	29 min
Jun 26, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Miner	32 min
Jun 26, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Hutchinson, McCook, Turner	31 min
Jun 26, 5:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Sanborn	27 min
Jun 26, 5:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Kingsbury, Lake, Miner	3 hr
Jun 26, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	McCook	31 min
Jun 26, 5:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Kingsbury, Miner	41 min
Jun 26, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Minnehaha, Turner	50 min
Jun 26, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	McCook, Turner	15 min
Jun 26, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings, Kingsbury, Lake, Miner, Moody	39 min
Jun 26, 6:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Brookings, Lake, Moody	3 hr
Jun 26, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	52 min
Jun 26, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay, Turner, Yankton	49 min
Jun 25, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Dickinson, Osceola	45 min
Jun 25, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon, Osceola	42 min
Jun 25, 9:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lyon, Osceola	37 min
Jun 25, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay, Dickinson, O'Brien, Osceola	43 min
Jun 25, 10:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	O'Brien, Osceola	36 min
Jun 25, 10:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	O'Brien, Osceola	46 min
Jun 25, 10:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	O'Brien, Sioux	48 min
Jun 25, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Buena Vista, Clay, O'Brien	46 min
Jun 25, 10:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Clay, Dickinson, O'Brien, Osceola	3 hr
Jun 25, 11:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	O'Brien	46 min
Jun 25, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Buena Vista, Clay	45 min
Jun 25, 11:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Cherokee, O'Brien, Plymouth, Sioux	47 min
Jun 26, 12:34 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Buena Vista, Cherokee	41 min
Jun 26, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Buena Vista	44 min
Jun 25, 7:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Cottonwood, Murray	37 min
Jun 25, 7:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Cottonwood, Jackson	3 hr
Jun 25, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles	42 min
Jun 26, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln	53 min
Jun 26, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon	55 min
Jun 26, 5:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lyon	26 min
Jun 26, 6:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Lyon	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2010 Every 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.