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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 3, 2016Brookings County, Kingsbury County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2016, 4:58 PM CDT for Brookings County, Kingsbury County, South Dakota. It was in force for 17 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2016, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Brookings County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 111 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1281 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

818 
WUUS53 KFSD 032158
SVRFSD
SDC011-077-032245-
/O.NEW.KFSD.SV.W.0036.160603T2158Z-160603T2245Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
458 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN BROOKINGS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...
  NORTHEASTERN KINGSBURY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 458 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HETLAND...OR
  10 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAKE THOMPSON STATE RECREATION AREA...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BADGER AND HETLAND AROUND 505 PM CDT. 
  ARLINGTON AROUND 515 PM CDT. 
  OAKWOOD STATE PARK AROUND 530 PM CDT. 
  BRUCE AROUND 540 PM CDT. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4436 9738 4451 9732 4451 9686 4426 9697
TIME...MOT...LOC 2158Z 277DEG 24KT 4441 9729 

HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

HANKO

1 follow-up statement

137 
WWUS53 KFSD 032215
SVSFSD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
515 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2016

SDC011-077-032225-
/O.CAN.KFSD.SV.W.0036.000000T0000Z-160603T2245Z/
BROOKINGS SD-KINGSBURY SD-
515 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN BROOKINGS AND
NORTHEASTERN KINGSBURY COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS ARE
STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 4436 9738 4451 9732 4451 9686 4426 9697
TIME...MOT...LOC 2213Z 277DEG 24KT 4440 9713 

$$

HANKO

The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings, Kingsbury	42 min
Jun 3, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings	29 min
Jun 3, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings, Lake, Moody	35 min
Jun 3, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Moody	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2016 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2016

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.