1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 2, 2:50 AM CST, 6 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 350 AM CDT MON JUL 2 2001 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING DEVELOPED AS EXPECTED IN RESPONSE TO INCREASING LOW LEVEL JET. WILL CARRY THESE ACROSS THE EASTERN 2/3RDS OF THE CWA THIS MORNING...WITH SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS THIS AFTERNOON. MAIN CONCERN IS WHERE WARM FRONT WILL SET UP...FOCUSING REDEVELOPMENT OF TSRA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT. GENERALLY WENT WITH A BLEND OF THE ETA/AVN...WITH THE WARM FRONT JUST SOUTH OF THE STATE LINE...THUS GIVING THE SOUTHERN CWA/MORVR COUNTIES THE BEST CHANCE OF PRECIP AS MCS SLIDES EAST ALONG THE BOUNDARY OVERNIGHT. WEAK COOL FRONT FORECAST TO SLIDE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE CWA TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY EVENING...SO WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN 2/3RDS OF CWA WITH THIS FEATURE...AND LINGERING INTO TUESDAY NIGHT ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST CWA. .FSD...NONE
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:02 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck and split a large tree. Most of the tree fell and damaged siding on a house, but just missed a parked car.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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