Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2010
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 2010, 11:26 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Union County, South Dakota; Plymouth County, Sioux County, Iowa. It was in force for 49 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2010, 11:26 PM CDT (04:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2010, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Plymouth County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Lincoln County, SD, Union County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:30 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 11:30 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 1 S Craig, IA | |
| Jun 22, 11:35 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 4 Sw Craig, IA | |
| Jun 22, 11:50 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 W Le Mars, IA | POWER POLES PUSHED OVER BY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WINDS AT HIGHWAY 3 AND JET ROAD. |
| Jun 22, 11:55 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | 3 E Struble, IA | SOME TREE DAMAGE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 22, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 4767 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1098 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.7
- Supercell composite
- 27.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
511 WFUS53 KFSD 230426 TORFSD IAC149-167-SDC083-127-230515- /O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0013.100623T0426Z-100623T0515Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1126 PM CDT TUE JUN 22 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN PLYMOUTH COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA... SOUTHERN SIOUX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA... SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... NORTHEASTERN UNION COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1125 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CRAIG...OR 10 MILES WEST OF LE MARS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A SECOND TORNADIC CIRCULATION WAS LOCATED 2 MILES EAST OF CRAIG. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... CRAIG AND HAWARDEN AROUND 1130 PM CDT... IRETON AROUND 1140 PM CDT... STRUBLE AROUND 1145 PM CDT... MAURICE AND HUDSON AROUND 1150 PM CDT... ORANGE CITY AND SIOUX CENTER AROUND 1205 AM CDT... ALTON AROUND 1210 AM CDT... HOSPERS AROUND 1215 AM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW. && LAT...LON 4320 9653 4310 9586 4274 9628 4286 9664 TIME...MOT...LOC 0425Z 224DEG 21KT 4286 9633 $$ SCHUMACHER
1 follow-up statement
467 WWUS53 KFSD 230514 RRA SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1214 AM CDT WED JUN 23 2010 IAC149-167-SDC083-127-230524- /O.EXP.KFSD.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-100623T0515Z/ SIOUX IA-PLYMOUTH IA-LINCOLN SD-UNION SD- 1214 AM CDT WED JUN 23 2010 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN UNION...SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN...NORTHWESTERN PLYMOUTH AND SOUTHERN SIOUX COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 1215 AM CDT... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 4320 9653 4310 9586 4274 9628 4286 9664 TIME...MOT...LOC 0514Z 224DEG 21KT 4307 9606 $$ SCHUMACHER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brule, Jerauld | 50 min |
| Jun 22, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Yankton | 44 min |
| Jun 22, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Union | 36 min |
| Jun 22, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora, Brule, Charles Mix, Douglas, Gregory, Jerauld | 47 min |
| Jun 22, 11:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Clay, Yankton | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Hutchinson, Turner, Yankton | 46 min |
| Jun 22, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Davison, Hanson, Hutchinson, McCook, Miner and 1 more | 46 min |
| Jun 23, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle, Hanson, Kingsbury, Lake, Miner, Sanborn | 38 min |
| Jun 23, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha | 30 min |
| Jun 23, 12:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Union | 5 hr |
| Jun 23, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 12:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, McCook, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody, Turner | 38 min |
| Jun 23, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle, Brookings, Kingsbury, Lake, Miner | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha, Moody | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, McCook, Minnehaha, Moody | 12 min |
| Jun 23, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, Minnehaha, Moody | 35 min |
| Jun 23, 2:49 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | FSD | Brookings, Moody | 2 hr |
| Jun 23, 7:06 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FSD | Brule, Charles Mix, Gregory | 15 hr |
| Jun 23, 1:42 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | McCook, Minnehaha | 21 hr |
| Jun 22, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Plymouth | 27 min |
| Jun 22, 10:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Plymouth | 25 min |
| Jun 22, 10:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Sioux | 36 min |
| Jun 22, 11:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cherokee, O'Brien | 50 min |
| Jun 22, 11:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, O'Brien | 25 min |
| Jun 22, 11:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cherokee, O'Brien, Plymouth, Sioux | 35 min |
| Jun 22, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Plymouth, Woodbury | 28 min |
| Jun 22, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Clay | 32 min |
| Jun 23, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Ida, O'Brien, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 27 min |
| Jun 23, 3:27 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Clay, Dickinson | 55 hr |
| Jun 23, 3:27 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Buena Vista | 16 days |
| Jun 23, 3:27 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Cherokee | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 3:27 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Sioux | 7 hr |
| Jun 23, 9:56 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Clay, O'Brien | 25 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.