1 tornado, 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 14, 2:15 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 315 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2003 CDFNT SHUD GO THRU DRY IN MOST OF SERN SD...BUT MIGHT STILL FLARE UP FM SWRN MN TO NWRN IA THRU EARLY TNGT...AS CAP BREAKS AND CONVERGENCE TIGHTENS E OF FNT. DEFINITELY NWLY FLW OF COOLER AND DRIER AIR NW OF FNT...AS GUID CATCHING UP TO REALITY WITH LWR LOWS TNGT. NICE DAY FOR TUE...BUT EXCPT GOOD RETURN SSELY FLW OF MOIST AIR AGAIN IN WRN CWA TUE NGT. WITH MID LVL COOL AIR IN PLACE... WILL HAVE TO HIT POPS A LIT HARDER THAN PREV FCST FOR WRN CWA LATE TUE NGT...AND WRN AND NRN CWA BY WED AFTN. MIGHT TURN OUT TO BE A MAJOR TSTM EVENT ESP FOR NRN AND ERN CWA FOR LATE WED INTO WED EVE. CAPPING THEN TAKES OVER THRU THU WITH RDG RIDER STILL PSBL IN NRN CWA LATE THU NGT. HOPEFULLY THIS WILL BE OUT BY FRI...BUT ANOTHER DECENT CHC ESP WRN AND SRN CWA FOR FRI NGT INTO EARLY SAT. WILL KEEP DRY THRU SUN...BUT WILL ADD A CHC TSTMS MON WITH PSBL RDG RIDER. LOOKS LIKE AIR MASS NEVER MIXES OUT TO MAX WITH REPEATED WEAK FRONTAL INTRUSIONS AND SELY FLOW. .FSD...NONE RSR
SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-IAZ001>003- 012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-151200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1112 AM CDT MON JUL 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... LINGERING SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO DISSIPATE OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST IOWA THROUGH MIDDAY. HOWEVER...MORE INTENSE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BECOME POSSIBLE BY LATER THIS AFTERNOON SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM MARSHALL...TO JUST EAST OF SIOUX FALLS...TO NEAR VERMILLION. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH STORMS WHICH DO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG A PREFRONTAL TROUGH AND AXIS OF GREATEST INSTABILITY FROM NEAR SIOUX CITY THROUGH WORTHINGTON AND WINDOM... WHERE A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS LATER THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE BY LATER TUESDAY NIGHT FOR AREAS FROM CHAMBERLAIN THROUGH HURON...WITH THE THREAT SAGGING GRADUALLY SOUTHEAST TOWARD INTERSTATE 90 IN SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA BY WEDNESDAY EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...BUT WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER 4 PM CDT ACROSS SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:07 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
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