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Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

November 8, 2014Beadle County, Brookings County, Kingsbury County, South Dakota; 5 counties in Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this winter storm watch at Nov 8, 2014, 2:49 PM CST for Beadle County, Brookings County, Kingsbury County, South Dakota; 5 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Nov 10, 2014, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 8, 2014, 2:49 PM CST (20:49 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 10, 2014, 12:00 AM CST
Expired
Nov 9, 2014, 3:15 PM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD

Counties Cottonwood County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Beadle County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 238 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2014-11-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2014-11-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1080 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.