Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2020
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2020, 6:26 AM CDT for Charles Mix County, Douglas County, Gregory County, South Dakota. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 2020, 6:26 AM CDT (11:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2020, 7:04 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Charles Mix County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Gregory County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:27 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 283 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
- 1428 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2223 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 6, 4:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 4:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 6:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Gregory | 25 min |
| Jun 6, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Gregory | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Douglas | 22 min |
| Jun 6, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Miner | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, McCook, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, Minnehaha, Moody | 37 min |
Nearby
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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.