Brief high winds associated with the passage of a cold front uprooted a large tree, tore off shingles, and blew down a large metal television antenna about 6 miles north of Kaylor. The winds also blew part of the roof off a barn and damaged the walls of the barn 2 miles west of Silver Lake in the northeast corner of the county.
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The episode as NWS FSD wrote it up.
Brief high winds associated with the passage of a cold front uprooted a large tree, tore off shingles, and blew down a large metal television antenna about 6 miles north of Kaylor. The winds also blew part of the roof off a barn and damaged the walls of the barn 2 miles west of Silver Lake in the northeast corner of the county.
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, 2:10 PM CST, 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 210 PM CST SAT MAR 27 2004 .DISCUSSION... 210 PM UPDATE UPDATED TO ISSUE A WIND ADVISORY FOR EASTERN SECTIONS OF CWA ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST MN AND NORTHWEST IOWA. GRADIENT TIGHTENING UP ACROSS THIS AREA IN ADVANCE OF COLD FRONT...AND WINDS JUST OFF SURFACE UP TO 50 MPH. STRONGEST WINDS NEAR THUNDERSTORMS IN DOWNDRAFTS...BUT GENERAL GUSTS TO 40 MPH LIKELY INTO EARLY EVENING HOURS ACROSS ADVISORY AREA. 10AM GRIDS AND ZFP IN GOOD SHAPE THIS MORNING...CALLING FOR WIDESPREAD SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS CWA THRU THE DAY. TEMPS STEADY REST OF DAY MOST AREAS...BUT WILL BEGIN TO FALL WESTERN SECTIONS DRG AFTERNOON AFTER FRONTAL PASSAGE. AIRMASS SATURATED SO POTENTIAL FOR BREIF HEAVY RAIN WITH THUNDERSTORMS. SEVERE THREAT APPEARS MINIMAL...BUT SMALL HAIL LIKELY...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND JUST IN FRONT OF COLD FRONT. FRONT WELL DEPICTED BY LIGHTNING ACTIVITY...AND SHARP WIND SHIFT FROM SOUTHEAST TO NORTHWEST. FRONT ENTERING WESTERN PTN OF CWA AT THIS TIME...WITH WIND SHIFT AT K9V9 AT 1431Z. FRONT TO BE NEAR EASTERN SD BORDER AROUND 00Z...CONTINUING EAST FROM THERE. BEST CHANCE FOR LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING SEVERE WEATHER THREAT LIKELY NORTHWEST IA IF DRY SLOT...NOW SHOWING UP IN SOUTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA CAN MAKE IT THAT FAR NORTH AND EAST LATER TODAY...COMBINED WITH APPROACHING FRONT. WILL MONITOR CLOSELY AS REST OF DAY PROGRESSES. && .FSD...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. IA...NONE. NE...NONE. && HARMON
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.
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