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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 3, 20225 counties in South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2022, 4:00 PM CDT for 5 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 45 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: Jul 3, 2022, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2022, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 2.5 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Beadle County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Miner County, SD, Sanborn County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 3, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	2 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 86 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: 172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -157 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1060 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 309 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Jul 3, 2:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 1:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 3, 11:00 AM CDT, 5 hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1100 AM CDT SUN JUL 3 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0700 AM     HEAVY RAIN       2 SSW WHITE             44.41N 96.66W
07/03/2022  M1.03 INCH       BROOKINGS          SD   COCORAHS

            COCORAHS STATION SD-BK-21 WHITE 1.7 SSW.

0700 AM     HEAVY RAIN       4 WNW BADGER            44.50N 97.29W
07/03/2022  M1.05 INCH       KINGSBURY          SD   COCORAHS

            COCORAHS STATION SD-KY-6 LAKE PRESTON 10.5
            NNE.

0700 AM     HEAVY RAIN       BRUCE                   44.44N 96.89W
07/03/2022  M1.91 INCH       BROOKINGS          SD   COCORAHS

            COCORAHS STATION SD-BK-37 BRUCE 0.2 SSW.

0700 AM     HEAVY RAIN       5 N BROOKINGS           44.38N 96.79W
07/03/2022  M1.98 INCH       BROOKINGS          SD   COCORAHS

            COCORAHS STATION SD-BK-41 BROOKINGS 5.3 N.

0800 AM     HEAVY RAIN       TYNDALL                 42.99N 97.86W
07/03/2022  M1.02 INCH       BON HOMME          SD   CO-OP OBSERVER

            CO-OP OBSERVER STATION TYNS2 TYNDALL.

0800 AM     HEAVY RAIN       4 SW WHITE              44.39N 96.69W
07/03/2022  M1.51 INCH       BROOKINGS          SD   COCORAHS

            COCORAHS STATION SD-BK-27 AURORA 7.5 N.

0800 AM     HEAVY RAIN       5 W BRUCE               44.43N 97.00W
07/03/2022  M1.56 INCH       BROOKINGS          SD   COCORAHS

            COCORAHS STATION SD-BK-45 BRUCE 5.3 W.

0800 AM     HEAVY RAIN       3 WSW BRUCE             44.43N 96.95W
07/03/2022  M2.04 INCH       BROOKINGS          SD   COCORAHS

            COCORAHS STATION SD-BK-51 BRUCE 3.0 WSW.

0955 AM     HEAVY RAIN       2 NNW HURON             44.39N 98.23W
07/03/2022  M1.00 INCH       BEADLE             SD   ASOS

            ASOS STATION KHON HURON REGIONAL AIRPORT.

1042 AM     HEAVY RAIN       VOLGA                   44.32N 96.92W
07/03/2022  M1.26 INCH       BROOKINGS          SD   MESONET

            MESONET STATION AT197 VOLGA.

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 12:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 3:15 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 3:18 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 3:36 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 3:37 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Hutchinson	34 min
Jul 2, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme	49 min
Jul 2, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme	53 min
Jul 3, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brule	18 min
Jul 3, 5:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	17 min
Jul 3, 5:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle, Sanborn	29 min
Jul 3, 12:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Aurora, Brule, Jerauld	43 min
Jul 3, 2:17 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	FSD	Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 14 more	51 hr
Jul 3, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle	36 min
Jul 3, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle, Jerauld, Sanborn	52 min
Jul 3, 3:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Sanborn	14 min
Jul 3, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Kingsbury, Lake, Miner	49 min

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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.