Alert archive / South Dakota / Flash Flood Warnings in 2014
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2014, 3:40 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 1, 2014, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2014, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Lincoln County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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 1, 4:00 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Sioux Falls, SD | URBAN STREET FLOODING |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
508
WGUS53 KFSD 012040
FFWFSD
SDC083-099-012330-
/O.NEW.KFSD.FF.W.0008.140601T2040Z-140601T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
340 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL MINNEHAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA
NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA
* UNTIL 630 PM CDT
* AT 336 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. HEAVY
RAINFALL OF ONE TO TWO INCHES HAS RECENTLY FALLEN ACROSS THE CITY OF
SIOUX FALLS. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL CAN BE
EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...SIOUX
FALLS...BRANDON...CROOKS AND ROWENA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
&&
LAT...LON 4369 9657 4350 9655 4350 9660 4349 9659
4348 9659 4348 9688 4368 9688
$$
BT1 follow-up statement
878
WGUS73 KFSD 012147
FFSFSD
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
447 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 2014
SDC083-099-012200-
/O.CAN.KFSD.FF.W.0008.000000T0000Z-140601T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
MINNEHAHA SD-LINCOLN SD-
447 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 2014
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN LINCOLN
AND CENTRAL MINNEHAHA COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS
AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO
RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED...
PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
AT 4 PM...MINNEHAHA COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTED STREET
FLOODING AROUND THE CITY OF SIOUX FALLS. THIS FLOODING HAS SINCE
RECEDED...AND THEREFOR THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 4369 9657 4350 9655 4350 9660 4349 9659
4348 9659 4348 9688 4368 9688
$$
BTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 1:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 17 more | 19 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Davison, Douglas, Hanson, Hutchinson, McCook | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 2:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Lake, Minnehaha, Moody | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Union | 5 days |
| Jun 1, 8:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Union | 5 days |
| Jun 1, 12:23 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Beadle | 4 days |
| Jun 1, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Yankton | 38 min |
| Jun 1, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson, Turner, Yankton | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha | 43 min |
| Jun 1, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Union | 49 min |
| Jun 1, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Lincoln, Turner, Union | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 43 min |
| Jun 1, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Union | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 5:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Brookings | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in South Dakota, 2014Every flash flood warning in 2014
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.