1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
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 Jun 5, 2:20 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 320 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006 .DISCUSSION... EXPCT TSTMS TO DVLP WRN PART OF FCST AREA NEXT CPL HRRS AND SPRD EWD ACRS CURNT WATCH AREA THRU 00Z. FAR ERN WATCH AREA INCLUDG FSD WILL HAVE ANY SVR THREAT AT END OF DAY. SOME QSTN ON SVR THREAT BKX TO MML WHERE CURNT CLDS AND SHWRS MOVG THRU...BUT STG/SVR STRMS THAT DVLP MAY SURVIVE AS SVR OR CLOSE TO IT EVEN INTO THIS AREA...ESPLY IF DAMAGNG WNDS DVLP. WILL CONT SVR THREAT IN ZONES FOR THIS EVE ERN FCST AREA AFTER CURNT WATCH EXPIRATION TIME...WHILE DROPPING THREAT OF ANYTHING QUICKLY FAR W AS FNT MOVES INTO AREA. PROGRESSION OF ENDING ACTVTY SHUD THEN CONT EWD OVER AREA DURNG THE NGT...WITH SVR THREAT PRBLY ENDG BY MIDNGT. WILL CONT CHC TSTMS ERN PARTS OF SWRN MN/NWRN IA THRU THE NGT. SOME VERY LCL HVY RAINFALL AMNTS PSBL BUT SHUFD NOT BE EXCESSVLY SO WITH ACTVTY HAVING A FAIRLY GOOD MOVE ON...SO AM NOT GOING WITH SPECIAL HVY RAIN MENTN IN FCST. SVR THREAT THIS TIME OF YEAR SHUD IMPLY HVY RAIN ANYWAY AND FLOODING THREAT DOESNT SEEM THERE RIGHT NOW. OBVIOUSLY WE WILL HAVE TO WATCH THIS WITH EVERYTHNG ELSE. TEMPS WILL COOL SOMEWHAT BHND FNT ALNG WITH CLRNG SKIES. MID TO UPPER 50S W TO LOW TO MID 60S E SEEMS SAFE. AFTER PRECIP EXITS THE AREA LATE TONIGHT...SHOULD BE PRETTY QUIET FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. LOW LEVEL TEMPS REMAIN QUITE WARM... UPPER TEENS TO LOWER 20S C AT 850MB...SO WILL KEEP HIGH TEMPS WELL ABOVE NORMAL FROM THE LOWER TO MID 80S IN SOUTHWEST MN TO NEAR 90 IN SOUTH CENTRAL SD. GFS AND NAM DIVERGE QUITE A BIT IN THEIR SOLUTIONS FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT/THURSDAY. BOTH SHOW DEVELOPMENT IN NORTHWEST SD WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... BUT GFS PUSHES THIS ACTIVITY SOUTHEAST BREAKING INTO THE MID LEVEL CAP WEDNESDAY NIGHT...WHILE NAM MAINTAINS STRONG LOW LEVEL JET THROUGH ALL OF SOUTH DAKOTA AND HOLDS PRECIP WELL NORTH OF OUR AREA. HAVE BEEN CARRYING LOW POPS ACROSS THE NORTHWEST/NORTH PARTS OF THE CWA FOR POSSIBLE RIDGE RIDERS FOR THIS PERIOD...AND WILL CONTINUE WITH THIS IDEA GIVEN UNCERTAINTY IN SOLUTIONS AT THIS TIME. NOT TOO MANY CHANGES IN THE LONGER RANGE TODAY. STILL LOOKS AS THOUGH BEST CHANCE FOR NOCTURNAL CONVECTION THURSDAY NIGHT WILL BE NORTH OF THE CWA...BUT WILL KEEP A SLIGHT CHANCE ALONG THE NORTHERN FRINGE OF OUR AREA. UPPER RIDGE FLATTENS OUT A LITTLE WITH THIS ACTIVITY...ALLOWING A BETTER CHANCE OF OVERNIGHT ACTIVITY SAGGING INTO OUR CWA FRIDAY NIGHT...LINGERING IN THE NORTHEAST INTO EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. TIMING IN GFS REMAINS FAIRLY CONSISTENT ON BRINGING MAIN SURFACE LOW/FRONT INTO WESTERN CWA LATER SATURDAY AFTERNOON...THEN DROPPING IT SOUTH THROUGH THE CWA SATURDAY NIGHT AS STRONGER WAVE PUSHES EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN CANADA AND BREAKS DOWN THE RIDGE. WILL KEEP HIGHEST POPS ACROSS THE CWA FOR THIS PERIOD... LINGERING IN THE SOUTHEAST CWA INTO SUNDAY. GREATER DIFFERENCES SHOWING UP FOR THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...MAINLY REGARDING HOW MUCH OF A SOUTHWARD PUSH THIS WAVE MAKES INTO THE NORTH CENTRAL US. 00Z AND 06Z GFS SHOW A STRONGER PUSH THAN THE MOST RECENT 12Z RUN...LEADING TO COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES MAKING A RETURN TO THE AREA FOR MONDAY. NOT READY TO JUMP ON THE MORE SIGNIFICANT COOLING SHOWN ON THE 00Z MEX GUIDANCE FOR MONDAY QUITE YET AS PREVIOUS RUNS OF THE GFS NOT QUITE AS AGGRESSIVE AND 12Z RUN TRENDING A LITTLE WEAKER AS WELL...BUT WILL STILL INDICATE COOLING COMPARED TO WELL ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS WE HAVE BEEN SEEING ACROSS THE AREA. && .AVIATION...AVIATION FCSTS SEEM SAFE FROM ANY GNRL CIG/VSBY PRBLM WITH BRIEF LWRG OF CONDS AND PSBL STG WNDS IN TSTMS. && .FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. IA...NONE. NE...NONE. && WILLIAMS/JH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1142 AM CDT MON JUN 05 2006 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-061200- 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- 1142 AM CDT MON JUN 05 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... A FEW THUNDERSTORMS IN PARTS OF THE AREA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. HOWEVER...STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND MOVE EAST LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH THE AREA. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN THREAT OF WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS...HOWEVER...ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY AFTER 400 PM. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK. WILLIAMS
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
423 PM CDT MON JUN 05 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0416 PM HAIL 2 N ALPENA 44.21N 98.37W
06/05/2006 E1.25 INCH BEADLE SD LAW ENFORCEMENT
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SLIEBLPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
426 PM CDT MON JUN 05 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0321 PM HAIL 9 S WESSINGTON 44.32N 98.70W
06/05/2006 E1.75 INCH BEADLE SD TRAINED SPOTTER
0418 PM HAIL ALPENA 44.18N 98.37W
06/05/2006 E1.00 INCH JERAULD SD TRAINED SPOTTER
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SLIEBLPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
431 PM CDT MON JUN 05 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0428 PM HAIL 2 N WOONSOCKET 44.08N 98.27W
06/05/2006 E1.75 INCH SANBORN SD LAW ENFORCEMENT
1 1/2 MILES NORTH OF WOONSOCKET
0425 PM HAIL 9 N WOONSOCKET 44.19N 98.27W
06/05/2006 E1.00 INCH SANBORN SD TRAINED SPOTTER
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SLIEBLThe Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:43 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado caused tree damage, including some trees uprooted, as it moved over open country. The tornado was observed and photographed by an off duty National Weather Service employee who is also an experienced storm chaser.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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