Alert archive / South Dakota / Wind Chill Watches in 2014
Wind Chill Watch 1, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this wind chill watch at Jan 3, 2014, 3:38 PM CST for 24 counties in South Dakota; 11 counties in Iowa; 8 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Jan 5, 2014, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2014, 3:38 PM CST (21:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 5, 2014, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 4, 2014, 3:34 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
All 43 counties
Buena Vista County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Clay County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Ida County, IA, Lyon County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Cottonwood County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Rock County, MN, Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Bon Homme County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Brule County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clay County, SD, Davison County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, McCook County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Turner County, SD, Union County, SD, Yankton County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 341 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 425 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill watch 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 wind chill watch went out at Jan 3, 3:31 PM CST, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 3:31 PM CST, 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 3, 3:38 AM CST, 12 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 0338 AM CST FRI JAN 03 2014 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-041200- AURORA-BEADLE-BON HOMME-BROOKINGS-BRULE-BUENA VISTA IA- CHARLES MIX-CHEROKEE IA-CLAY-CLAY IA-COTTONWOOD MN-DAKOTA NE- DAVISON-DICKINSON IA-DIXON NE-DOUGLAS-GREGORY-HANSON-HUTCHINSON- IDA IA-JACKSON MN-JERAULD-KINGSBURY-LAKE-LINCOLN-LINCOLN MN- LYON IA-LYON MN-MCCOOK-MINER-MINNEHAHA-MOODY-MURRAY MN-NOBLES MN- OBRIEN IA-OSCEOLA IA-PIPESTONE MN-PLYMOUTH IA-ROCK MN-SANBORN- SIOUX IA-TURNER-UNION-WOODBURY IA-YANKTON- 0338 AM CST FRI JAN 03 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WINTER WEATHER... AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WILL RESULT FROM STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS TODAY. THE BLOWING SNOW WILL DECREASE FROM THE WEST. FOR TONIGHT...A MIXTURE OF RAIN...FREEZING RAIN...AND SLEET WILL BECOME ALL SNOW LATE. THE PRECIPITATION WILL BE LIGHT AND MAINLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 90. SOME LIGHT ICING IS POSSIBLE. AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW WILL REDEVELOP LATE TONIGHT. WIND AND FOG... STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS TODAY WILL STAY GENERALLY A LITTLE BELOW 30 MPH SUSTAINED...BUT SUSTAINED SOUTHERLY WINDS MAY BE ABOVE THIS LEVEL AT TIMES THIS MORNING ALONG AND NEAR THE BUFFALO RIDGE AREA IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...EXTENDING WEST INTO BROOKINGS COUNTY OF SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SOME BLOWING SNOW MAY LINGER SATURDAY MORNING BUT SHOULD DECREASE DURING THE DAY. DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SATURDAY NIGHT AND WORSEN SUNDAY. WIND CHILLS OF 25 TO 40 BELOW ZERO ARE EXPECTED BY LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON...AND 40 TO 50 BELOW BY LATE SUNDAY NIGHT. AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW MAY ALSO REDEVELOP SUNDAY. DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS OF 40 TO 55 BELOW ZERO ARE EXPECTED MONDAY MORNING. THESE WIND CHILLS WILL CONTINUE WITH AT MOST SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. MORE RAPID IMPROVEMENT IS EXPECTED TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SIOUXFALLS. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 3:04 PM CST | Wind Advisory | FSD | Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 12 more | 18 hr |
| Jan 3, 8:46 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 1 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Wind Chill Watches in South Dakota, 2014Wind Chill Watches in Iowa, 2014Wind Chill Watches in Minnesota, 2014Every wind chill watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.