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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 28, 2025Brookings County, Lake County, Moody County, South Dakota; Lincoln County, Pipestone County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2025, 7:44 AM CDT for Brookings County, Lake County, Moody County, South Dakota; Lincoln County, Pipestone County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 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 28, 2025, 7:44 AM CDT (12:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2025, 8:30 AM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Lincoln County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Brookings County, SD, Lake County, SD, Moody County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2025-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 62 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2025-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
62 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-244 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2062 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
282 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 Jun 28, 6:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 6:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 4:18 AM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 28, 1:45 AM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 28, 7:19 AM CDT, 25 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 28, 7:23 AM CDT, 21 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrule, Charles Mix, Gregory41 min
Jun 27, 8:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFSDBrule3 hr
Jun 27, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFSDAurora, Brule, Charles Mix, Gregory49 min
Jun 27, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFSDAurora, Davison49 min
Jun 27, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFSDAurora, Charles Mix, Davison, Douglas, Gregory, Hutchinson51 min
Jun 27, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFSDDavison, Hanson, Hutchinson, McCook51 min
Jun 27, 10:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFSDBon Homme, Charles Mix, Douglas, Hutchinson, Turner, Yankton54 min
Jun 27, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHanson, Hutchinson, McCook, Turner49 min
Jun 27, 10:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFSDBon Homme, Clay, Hutchinson, Turner, Yankton52 min
Jun 27, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Turner, Yankton32 min
Jun 28, 12:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDYankton32 min
Jun 28, 7:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrookings, Kingsbury, Lake31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2025Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2025Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2025

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.