1 high wind, 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 Mar 27, 3:10 PM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 310 PM CST SAT MAR 27 2004 .DISCUSSION... CORRECTED TO ADD WIND ADVY ZONES STG SLY GRADIENT STILL DVLPG IN ERN THIRD OF CWA AND WILL KEEP WIND ADVY THRU 8 PM. BANDS OF SHWRS/TSTMS WILL MOVE E OVR CWA EARLY TNGT...WITH WRAPAROUND SHWRS EXPCD TO LINGER IN WRN HLF CWA IN BRISK NWLY FLW OF COOL AIR BEHIND CDFNT. ANY SVR EXPCD TO BE ON THE MARGINAL SIDE EARLY TNGT...WITH MAIN THREAT FM STG SLY GRADIENT WINDS MIXING DOWN TO SFC WITH CONVECTION. THESE SCT SHWRS SHOULD SPRD E OVR CWA SUN...BUT WILL BE ON THE LIGHT SIDE. EXPCT STG MIXING WITH WNWLY FLW AND WILL KEEP PREV FCST OF RELATIVELY MILD TEMPS... ESP IN WRN AND SWRN CWA WHERE THERE WILL BE MORE SUN. ANY SHWRS SHOULD MOVE E OF CWA SUN NGT...BUT THEN MORE COLD AIR INSTABILITY SCT LGT SHWRS EXPCD MON AFTN AS PER PREV FCST WITH EVEN A CHC MIXD LGT SNW IN SWRN MN. STILL FEEL GFS/MAV GUID HAS WINTER COLD BIAS WITH THIS WHOLE PATTERN...AND THINK ETA/MET GUID A LIT MORE REASONABLE. TUE DOES LOOK COOL ESP IN MN AND IA...BUT MODERATION AND SUBSIDENCE SHOULD GRADUALLY WARM THINGS UP THEREAFTER. IN THE EXTENDED WED THRU SAT...MODELS ARE SHOWING SOME CONSISTENCY IN VERY SLOWLY LIFTING THE LARGE UPPER VORTEX THRU THE ERN U.S DURING THIS TIME FRAME. BUT THERE ARE ALSO A FAIR AMNT OF DISCREPANCIES IN THE DETAILS...AS THE EURO MODELS ARE THE MOST PROGRESSIVE WITH THE GFS SOLNS TO SLOWEST...THE CAN SPECTRAL IN BETWEEN. THE 84HR ETA IS SIMILAR TO LAST NIGHTS GFS IN PLACING THE CRUX OF THE UPPER TROF OVR LK MI BY TUE EVENING. THEREFORE WED MIGHT BE AN IN-BETWEEN DAY BEFORE THINGS WARM UP A BIT LATE IN THE WEEK. TEMPS OFF THE SFC ARE STILL RATHER CHILLY ON WED...BUT THEN BEGIN TO MODIFY. WITH A LARGE SFC ANTICYCLONE MOVG SLOWLY THRU THE NRN PLAINS AND GRTLKS AREA...A GENERAL STABLE AND DRY E TO ESE FETCH OF AIR SETS UP. THEREFORE LEFT THE EXTENDED DRY UNTIL SAT NIGHT WHEN THE NEXT UPPER TROF MIGHT BE MOVG INTO THE AREA. EVEN LEFT THE NE HALF OF THE FSD FA DRY SAT NIGHT AHEAD OF THIS UPPER TROF. FOR TEMPS... EVEN ON WED WENT MOSTLY ABOUT 5 TO 10 DEGS OVER MEX HIGHS THRU THE PD AS THEY JUST LOOK TOO COLD. THE GFS HAS A TENDENCY TO HANG ON TO COLD AIR TOO LONG WITH H85 TEMPS TOO COOL. && .FSD...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...WIND ADVY TIL 8 PM ZNS 072-080-081-089-090 IA...WIND ADVY TIL 8 PM ZNS 002-003-013-014-021-022-032 NE...NONE. && RYRHOLM/FUHS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1228 PM CST SAT MAR 27 2004 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-281200- AURORA-BEADLE-BON HOMME-BROOKINGS-BRULE-BUENA VISTA IA- CHARLES MIX-CHEROKEE IA-CLAY-CLAY IA-COTTONWOOD MN-DAKOTA NE- DAVISON-DICKINSON IA-DIXON NE-DOUGLAS-GREGORY-HANSON-HUTCHINSON- IDA IA-JACKSON MN-JERAULD-KINGSBURY-LAKE-LINCOLN-LINCOLN MN- LYON IA-LYON MN-MCCOOK-MINER-MINNEHAHA-MOODY-MURRAY MN-NOBLES MN- OBRIEN IA-OSCEOLA IA-PIPESTONE MN-PLYMOUTH IA-ROCK MN-SANBORN- SIOUX IA-TURNER-UNION-WOODBURY IA-YANKTON- THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM DOWNDRAFT WINDS OF AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA INTO SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA EARLY SATURDAY AFTERNOON WILL MOVE EAST. THESE STORMS WILL INCREASE THE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CONTAINING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...ACROSS EXTREME NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...FAR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...AND PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST IOWA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL END ACROSS THE AREA LATER THIS EVENING AS THE COLD FRONT SWEEPS FURTHER EAST INTO MINNESOTA AND IOWA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER 4 PM ACROSS EXTREME NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...EXTREME SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST IOWA THROUGH AROUND 8 PM THIS EVENING. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Brief high winds associated with the passage of a cold front uprooted large trees and caused other tree damage at a farm one mile north of Brewster. Two homes at the farm were damaged by falling trees and tree debris.
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