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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2010, 6:16 PM CDT for Aurora County, Brule County, South Dakota. It was in force for 44 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
- Jul 10, 2010, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Aurora County, SD, Brule County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1481 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -228 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1406 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 Jul 10, 4:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 4:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 415 PM CDT SAT JUL 10 2010 .DISCUSSION... CWA CURRENTLY IN WAKE OF WAVE WHICH HAS PUSHED OFF E THRU MN... AND AHEAD OF NEXT UPSTREAM WAVE PUSHING OUT OF WY INTO SWRN SD. INCREASE IN LLJ AHEAD OF SECOND WAVE HAS BROUGHT SOME HEALTHY BL DWPTS NWRD...BUT ALSO NOW HAVE DRYLINE JUST W OF THE CWA WITH 68 DWPT AT K9V9...AND DOWN TO 53 AT KICR. A COUPLE CELLS RECENTLY DEVELOPED IN SCNTRL SD ALG BOTH WIND SHIFT SE OF KPIR...AND ALG THE DRYLINE IN TRIPP/LYMAN CNTY BORDER AREA. SVR THREAT FOR THE OVERNIGHT IS THE PRIMARY FOCUS. STILL HAVE PRESENCE OF STRONG ELEVATED MIXED LAYER ACRS THE AREA THIS AFTN...BUT ACTIVITY HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN BY THE WK SUBSIDENCE IN WAKE OF EARLIER WAVE. HOWEVER...WITH PRESENCE OF DEEPER MOISTURE STREAMING THRU CWA...HAVE DESTABILIZED WITH ML CAPE OF 2000-3000 J/KG...AND CAP LACKING NORMAL STOUTNESS. THEREFORE...EXPECT THAT WL ONLY TAKE A BETTER FAVOR TOWARD LIFT FORCING TO GET CONVECTION GOING NEAR EXISTING BOUNDARIES. EFFECTIVE SHEAR SUGGESTS THAT ROTATING STORMS WL BE PROBABLE...BUT MIXING TO THE W WL CREATE SITUATION OF HIGHER LCL TO START WITH FOR THIS EVENING FOR THE WRN STORMS. BETTER TOR PARAMETERS ARE DEFINITELY TO THE EAST OF THE EXISTING WATCH... BUT EVEN THOSE WL TAKE A HIT WITH WKNG WINDS THIS EVENING BY THE TIME CONVECTION WORKS THAT FAR EWRD. WITH SUPERCELLULAR STRUCTURES LATE AFTN/EARLY EVNG...FORWARD MOTION SLOWS TO A CRAWL...7-11 KTS BASED ON EXPECTED WIND STRUCTURE. THESE STORMS COULD POTENTIALLY TAKE ON HP CHARACTERISTICS AT THIS POINT... PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. AS STORMS BUILD EWRD LATER IN THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...WOULD EXPECT TRANSITION TO MULTICELL STRUCTURES...FEATURING SHORT BOWING SEGMENTS...AND SOMEWHAT LARGER HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND THREAT TOWARD I29 CORRIDOR...THEN MOSTLY JUST DAMAGING WINDS ACRS NW IA. /CHAPMAN EXPCD MCS PULLS ESEWD THRU NWRN IA EARLY IN THE MRNG FLWD BY SOME ACCAS LEFTOVERS REST OF SE CWA IN THE MRNG. CDFNT GRADUALLY MOVES SEWD OVER CWA DURG DAY...BUT MOST DYNAMICS AND INSTABILITY ASSCD WITH EARLY MRNG MCS. HOWEVER...WILL KEEP POPS IN THE AFTN SERN HLF CWA WITH BOUNDARY MOVG THRU AND ENUF DESTABILIZATION. IF THERE ARE ANY SVR TSTMS...IT WILL PROBABLY BE SE OF LN FM MJQ TO SUX WITH FNT PER SPC. SYSTEM PULLS OUT BY SUN EVE...BUT NOW MODELS PRETTY GUNGHO WITH RETURN LWR TO MID LVL FLOW ASSCD WITH NEW SHORT WAVE PUNCHING EAST. WILL EXPAND POPS NWD OVER SRN CWA TO VCNTY I90 LATER SUN NGT THRU MON WITH THIS WAVE...BUT GFS OVERDONE WITH BULLEYE QPF COMPARED TO OTHER MODELS WHICH ARE MUCH WEAKER AND FURTHER SOUTH. SUN THRU MON WILL BE RELATIVELY COOLER WITH CLOUDS AND SOME RAIN COOLED AIR EXPCD...BUT LOW LVL MOISTURE SHOULD LINGER WITH HIGHER DEWPOINTS THAN PREV FCST. NEXT DECENT CHC TSTMS WILL START NORTH OF I90 LATER TUES NGT AHEAD OF NEXT BIG SHORT WAVE IN NRN PLAINS...THEN DVLP SEWD THRU ERN HLF CWA WED...LINGERING IN FAR SERN CWA WED EVE NEAR CDFNT. SLY FLOW SHOULD BRING BACK VERY WARM AND HUMID AIR INTO CWA ON TUES...SHIFTING SE OF AREA LATE WED WITH FNT. THU INTO FRI SHOULD BE NICE DAYS...PLEASANT ON THU AND WARMING UP AGAIN FRI WITH RETURN SLY FLOW. PUT IN SLGT CHC TSTMS SWRN CWA FRI AFTN AND SRN AND ERN CWA FRI NGT WITH EXPCD MID LVL WAVE. /RYRHOLM && .AVIATION... WIDESPREAD VFR CONDITIONS LATE AFTN WL BECOME GRADUALLY INTERSPERSED WITH CONVECTIVE REDUCTION TO MVFR CIGS/IFR-MVFR VSBYS. CONVECTION SHUD BE SCT AS IT PUSHES INTO KHON AREA EARLY EVNG...AND TOWARD/AFT MIDNIGHT FOR KFSD/KSUX AREAS. STORMS ESPLY THRU THE JAMES VALLEY AND WWRD THIS EVENING WL BE CAPABLE OF VERY LARGE HAIL. /CHAPMAN && .FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. IA...NONE. NE...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 11:54 AM CDT, 6 hours 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1154 AM CDT SAT JUL 10 2010 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-111200- 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- 1154 AM CDT SAT JUL 10 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 ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND THEN SPREAD SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE NIGHT. THE STORMS THAT DEVELOP WEST OF INTERSTATE 29 WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL TO GOLF BALL SIZE AND DAMAGING WINDS TO AROUND 65 MPH...WITH AN ISOLATED TORNADO POSSIBLE MAINLY THROUGH THE MID JAMES VALLEY AREAS THROUGH AROUND SUNSET. A FEW STORMS LATE AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING COULD BE VERY SLOW MOVING...AND CAPABLE OF VERY LARGE HAIL TO TENNIS BALL SIZE...AS WELL AS LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT EAST OF INTERSTATE 29 LATER TONIGHT. FLOODING... THE JAMES RIVER WILL REMAIN IN FLOOD FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE...AND THE BIG SIOUX RIVER AT BRUCE WILL ALSO BE IN FLOOD THROUGH AT LEAST THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE AREA SUNDAY MORNING...WITH ADDITIONAL REDEVELOPMENT EAST OF INTERSTATE 29 SUNDAY AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE ACROSS NORTHWEST IOWA BY EARLY AFTERNOON. THERE WILL BE ANOTHER THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER 5 PM CDT IN LOWER BRULE AREAS...AFTER 7 PM IN THE JAMES VALLEY...AND BY LATE EVENING THROUGH THE INTERSTATE 29 CORRIDOR AND EASTWARD. && 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, Jul 10, 5:20 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brule | 34 min |
| Jul 10, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brule | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle | 38 min |
| Jul 10, 7:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 28 min |
| Jul 10, 8:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 31 min |
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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.