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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

October 24, 2023Cottonwood County, Murray County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 2023, 12:05 PM CDT for Cottonwood County, Murray County, Minnesota. It was in force for 25 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
Oct 24, 2023, 12:05 PM CDT (17:05 UTC)
Expired
Oct 24, 2023, 12:30 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
50.0 mph

Counties Cottonwood County, MN, Murray County, MN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:06 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2023-10-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2023-10-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.7

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 24, 12:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay, Dickinson10 min
Oct 24, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay, Dickinson16 min
Oct 24, 12:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay, Dickinson15 min
Oct 24, 1:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMurray34 min
Oct 24, 12:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCottonwood, Murray31 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.