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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2016, 2:14 PM CDT for Jackson County, Nobles County, Minnesota; Osceola County, Iowa. It was in force for 31 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2016, 2:14 PM CDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2016, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
Counties Osceola County, IA, Jackson County, MN, Nobles County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:32 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 51 | 2 Ne Worthington, MN | . |
| Jun 14, 2:35 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Worthington, MN | SEVERAL LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN ON SOUTHEAST SIDE OF TOWN. |
| Jun 14, 2:41 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | Brewster, MN | LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN. |
| Jun 14, 2:46 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 E Worthington, MN | TREES ON POWER LINES. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- -188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
615
WFUS53 KFSD 141914
TORFSD
IAC143-MNC063-105-141945-
/O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0008.160614T1914Z-160614T1945Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
214 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL OSCEOLA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN IOWA...
EASTERN NOBLES COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA...
WEST CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 245 PM CDT
* AT 213 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR WORTHINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 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...
WORTHINGTON AROUND 225 PM CDT.
BREWSTER AROUND 230 PM CDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
BIGELOW.
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 4347 9561 4354 9580 4384 9564 4375 9536
4368 9541 4358 9550
TIME...MOT...LOC 1913Z 204DEG 35KT 4357 9568
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
MALDONADOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 10:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Nobles | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Pipestone | 37 min |
| Jun 14, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Nobles | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Jackson | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Murray, Nobles | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cottonwood | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 9:31 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Clay | 13 days |
| Jun 14, 9:31 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Clay | 12 days |
| Jun 14, 12:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 2 more | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Dickinson | 37 min |
| Jun 14, 2:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:10 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Clay | 4 days |
| Jun 14, 3:10 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Clay, Dickinson | 4 days |
| Jun 14, 4:49 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FSD | Clay, Dickinson | 43 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.