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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2014, 8:00 PM CDT for Charles Mix County, Douglas County, Hutchinson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 34 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
- Jun 3, 2014, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2014, 8:34 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Charles Mix County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 311 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
- 1451 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
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 Jun 3, 6:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 6:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 8:48 AM CDT, 11 hours 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 848 AM CDT TUE JUN 3 2014 IAZ020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-SDZ050-063-068>071-041015- PLYMOUTH-CHEROKEE-BUENA VISTA-WOODBURY-IDA-DIXON-DAKOTA-GREGORY- CHARLES MIX-BON HOMME-YANKTON-CLAY-UNION- 848 AM CDT TUE JUN 3 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST IOWA...NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING NEAR THE MISSOURI RIVER CORRIDOR...BUT THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER...THIS AFTERNOON MUCH STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA INTO CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FUNNEL DOWN THE MISSOURI RIVER VALLEY INTO NORTHWEST IOWA THROUGH THE MID AND LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS...WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. BE PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD END BY MIDNIGHT BUT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY WHILE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY AFTER 1 PM CDT TODAY. IAZ001>003-012>014-MNZ081-089-090-098-SDZ057>062-064>067-041015- LYON-OSCEOLA-DICKINSON-SIOUX-OBRIEN-CLAY-COTTONWOOD-NOBLES- JACKSON-ROCK-BRULE-AURORA-DAVISON-HANSON-MCCOOK-MINNEHAHA-DOUGLAS- HUTCHINSON-TURNER-LINCOLN- 848 AM CDT TUE JUN 3 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST IOWA...SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND WEST OF THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY THROUGH THE MORNING. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS... STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND WILL ROLL EASTWARD THROUGH THE EVENING. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS BUT THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY WHILE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER 2 PM TODAY. MNZ071-072-080-097-SDZ038>040-052>056-041015- LINCOLN-LYON-MURRAY-PIPESTONE-BEADLE-KINGSBURY-BROOKINGS-JERAULD- SANBORN-MINER-LAKE-MOODY- 848 AM CDT TUE JUN 3 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING...ENDING FROM WEST TO EAST. AT THIS TIME SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO MAINLY BE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90 BUT A FEW OF THE STORMS THAT DEVELOP NEAR HIGHWAY 14 COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WITH A HALF AN INCH TO AN INCH OF RAINFALL POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY WHILE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 3, 4:00 PM CDT, 4 hours before
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.