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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2016, 3:25 PM CDT for Sioux County, Iowa. It was in force for 16 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
- Jul 7, 2016, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2016, 3:41 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Sioux County, IA
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -552 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 778 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -269 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
416
WFUS53 KFSD 072025
TORFSD
IAC167-072100-
/O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0011.160707T2025Z-160707T2100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
325 PM CDT THU JUL 7 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN SIOUX COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN IOWA...
* UNTIL 400 PM CDT
* AT 325 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHEAST OF HULL...OR NORTHEAST OF SIOUX
CENTER...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
DAMAGE IS LIKELY.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
BOYDEN AROUND 335 PM CDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN
A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4311 9613 4316 9612 4325 9587 4309 9587
TIME...MOT...LOC 2025Z 263DEG 20KT 4314 9608
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
CHAPMAN1 follow-up statement
773
WWUS53 KFSD 072041
SVSFSD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
341 PM CDT THU JUL 7 2016
IAC167-072051-
/O.CAN.KFSD.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-160707T2100Z/
SIOUX IA-
341 PM CDT THU JUL 7 2016
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN SIOUX COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE...THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS ARE
STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 4311 9613 4316 9612 4325 9587 4309 9587
TIME...MOT...LOC 2039Z 263DEG 20KT 4315 9596
$$
CHAPMANThe office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, O'Brien | 38 min |
| Jul 7, 12:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Ida, Woodbury | 52 min |
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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.