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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2024, 11:49 AM CDT for Lyon County, Murray County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 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 4, 2024, 11:49 AM CDT (16:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2024, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:50 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1440 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 4, 6:37 AM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 6:37 AM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 4, 3:42 AM CDT, 8 hours 7 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Sioux Falls SD 342 AM CDT Thu Jul 4 2024 IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097- 098-NEZ013-014-SDZ038>040-050-052>071-050845- Lyon-Osceola-Dickinson-Sioux-O'Brien-Clay-Plymouth-Cherokee- Buena Vista-Woodbury-Ida-Lincoln-Murray-Cottonwood-Nobles-Jackson- Pipestone-Rock-Dixon-Dakota-Beadle-Kingsbury-Brookings-Gregory- Jerauld-Sanborn-Miner-Lake-Moody-Brule-Aurora-Davison-Hanson-McCook- Minnehaha-Charles Mix-Douglas-Hutchinson-Turner-Bon Homme-Yankton- Union- 342 AM CDT Thu Jul 4 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northwest Iowa, west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, central South Dakota, east central South Dakota, south central South Dakota and southeast South Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected today. Some could be strong to severe with large hail to the size of a quarter, damaging winds to 60 mph, and funnel clouds to perhaps a brief tornado. An isolated heavier rain potential will coincide with the strongest storms. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. An active pattern aloft will keep additional showers and thunderstorms possible through the rest of the week and into next week. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dickinson | 29 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.