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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

August 30, 20104 counties in South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 2010, 5:57 PM CDT for 4 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 33 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
Aug 30, 2010, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 2010, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
70.0 mph

Counties Aurora County, SD, Brule County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Douglas County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 30, 3:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 2010-08-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 357 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2010-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 199 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
357 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-450 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1401 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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 Aug 30, 3:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 3:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 30, 5:32 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 30, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDGregory36 min
Aug 30, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDAurora, Brule, Charles Mix, Gregory29 min
Aug 30, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDGregory33 min
Aug 30, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDAurora, Davison, Sanborn24 min
Aug 30, 6:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDavison, Sanborn24 min
Aug 30, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSanborn34 min
Aug 30, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix, Gregory29 min
Aug 30, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDAurora, Brule, Charles Mix, Davison, Douglas39 min
Aug 30, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBeadle, Kingsbury, Miner, Sanborn46 min
Aug 30, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBon Homme, Charles Mix, Douglas, Hutchinson33 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.