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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Apr 9, 2011, 10:13 PM CDT for Buena Vista County, Cherokee County, Iowa. It was in force for 47 min. 2 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
- Apr 9, 2011, 10:13 PM CDT (03:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2011, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Buena Vista County, IA, Cherokee County, IA
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 10:15 PM CDT | HAIL 2.75 | 1 Se Cherokee, IA | GOLFBALL TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL |
| Apr 9, 10:15 PM CDT | HAIL 4 | Cherokee, IA | 3.5 INCH HAIL MEASURED |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 3327 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 403 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.7
- Supercell composite
- 19.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
875 WFUS53 KFSD 100313 TORFSD IAC021-035-100400- /O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0011.110410T0313Z-110410T0400Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1013 PM CDT SAT APR 9 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL BUENA VISTA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA... EAST CENTRAL CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA... * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 1013 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR QUIMBY...OR 21 MILES WEST OF STORM LAKE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... CHEROKEE AROUND 1020 PM CDT... AURELIA AROUND 1025 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 4288 9535 4268 9533 4264 9561 4274 9566 TIME...MOT...LOC 0313Z 234DEG 29KT 4270 9557 $$ CJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Ida, Woodbury | 36 min |
| Apr 9, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Ida | 29 min |
| Apr 9, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Ida | 31 min |
| Apr 9, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Ida, Woodbury | 29 min |
| Apr 9, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Ida | 34 min |
| Apr 9, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Ida, Woodbury | 37 min |
| Apr 9, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Ida | 34 min |
| Apr 9, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Woodbury | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee | 35 min |
| Apr 9, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Ida | 19 min |
| Apr 9, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Woodbury | 35 min |
| Apr 9, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee | 37 min |
| Apr 9, 9:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Buena Vista | 36 min |
| Apr 9, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Sioux | 30 min |
| Apr 9, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Woodbury | 43 min |
| Apr 9, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Plymouth, Woodbury | 36 min |
| Apr 9, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista | 20 min |
| Apr 9, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Woodbury | 29 min |
| Apr 9, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay | 39 min |
| Apr 9, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Buena Vista | 29 min |
| Apr 9, 9:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cherokee | 27 min |
| Apr 9, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 32 min |
| Apr 9, 10:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Buena Vista | 28 min |
| Apr 9, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista | 36 min |
| Apr 9, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, O'Brien, Plymouth, Sioux | 36 min |
| Apr 9, 10:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cherokee | 29 min |
| Apr 9, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Clay | 30 min |
| Apr 9, 10:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee | 40 min |
| Apr 9, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Clay | 34 min |
| Apr 9, 11:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Clay | 18 min |
| Apr 9, 11:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Clay | 21 min |
| Apr 10, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 36 min |
| Apr 10, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Ida | 28 min |
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.