Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2010
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 2010, 5:29 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, McCook County, Turner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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 26, 2010, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2010, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hutchinson County, SD, McCook County, SD, Turner County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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 26, 5:54 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 S Canistota, SD | QUARTER SIZED HAIL WAS ACCOMPANIED BY WINDS ESTIMATED AT 25 MPH. |
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 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
610
WFUS53 KFSD 262229
TORFSD
SDC067-087-125-262300-
/O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0029.100626T2229Z-100626T2300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
529 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN HUTCHINSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...
SOUTHERN MCCOOK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...
NORTHWESTERN TURNER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...
* UNTIL 600 PM CDT
* AT 529 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CLAYTON...OR 26 MILES WEST OF
PARKER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
BRIDGEWATER AROUND 550 PM CDT...
DOLTON AROUND 555 PM CDT...
CANISTOTA AND MONROE AROUND 600 PM 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.
&&
LAT...LON 4350 9761 4356 9759 4362 9713 4346 9713
4334 9763 4348 9771
TIME...MOT...LOC 2229Z 241DEG 24KT 4344 9762
$$
WEISSERThe 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, 5:33 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, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Turner | 28 min |
| 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 |
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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.