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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 291, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

September 11, 20264 counties in Iowa

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 2026, 10:29 PM CDT for 4 counties in Iowa. 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: Sep 11, 2026, 10:29 PM CDT (03:29 UTC)
Expired: Sep 11, 2026, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Cherokee County, IA, Ida County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Woodbury County, IA

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 312 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: 235 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -300 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 392 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Sep 11, 6:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 6:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 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
Sep 11, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha, Turner	22 min
Sep 11, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Clay, Union	51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 2026 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2026

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.