A thunderstorm produced damaging winds near Newcastle in extreme northeast Nebraska on the early morning of September 25th.
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A thunderstorm produced damaging winds near Newcastle in extreme northeast Nebraska on the early morning of September 25th.
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 Sep 25, 2:20 AM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 320 AM CDT SAT SEP 25 2010 .DISCUSSION... SHOWERS AND TSTMS MOVG ESEWD ACROSS FORECAST AREA IN THESE PRE DAWN HOURS AS SHORTWAVE DIGS INTO AREA FRONT HE NW. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY SHOULD BE OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF AREA BY 12Z. SHWRS AND TSTMS MOVING AND DEVELOPING TOWARD NWRN IA SHOULD BECOME WIDESPREAD THERE DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. THO LESS WIDESPREAD...SHOWERS TO THE N STILL WARRANT HI POPS IN THE NERN QUARTER FOR EARLY THIS MORNING THOUGH BEST RAINFALL WILL BE OVER NWRN IA. AFTER EARLY MRNG...SHOWERS SHOULD CONT TO DECREASE FROM THE W...THO THEY SHOULD REMAIN OVER THE FAR SE THRU THE DAY AS WAVE DIGS MORE SEWD/SWD ON ITS WAY FOR FORMING UPPER LOW SSE OF AREA. WRN FORECAST AREA SHOULD CLEAR OUR REAL WELL TODAY AND THIS CLEARING WILL PROCEED THIS AFTN AND EVE AT A SLOWER PACE OVER THE E. WILL KEEP SLGT CHC SHWRS FAR SE INTO EARLY EVE. TEMPS WILL BE HELD DOWN OF COURSE BY CLOUDS AND SHOWERS AT LEAST IN THE E. SOME CLOUDS WILL LINGER FOR A WHILE IN THAT FAR SERN CORNER FOR TNGT OTRW MOCLEAR/CLEAR LOOKS GOOD. REAL QUESTION WITH LOW LEVEL FLOW GOING SO LIGHT SO QUICKLY IS THE POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF SOME FOG AND STRATUS IN THE SE. WE HAVE BEEN CARRYING THE PATCHY FOG AND WILL KEEP THAT WHILE KEEPING CLOUD COVER FAIRLY LOW LATE TONIGHT...THAT IS...WILL HOLD OFF ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SIGNIFICANT STRATUS AT THIS TIME. SUNDAY SHOULD BE THE FIRST FULL DAY OF AN EXTENDED DRY AND MILD PERIOD AS STRONG UPPER RIDGING OVER WRN CONUS SPREADS GRADUALLY EWD. SHORTWAVES EVERY COUPLE DAYS STARTING MON WILL BE TO FAR N/E OF AREA TO DO MORE THAN DRAG A FEW WEAK AND DRY COOL FRONTS ACROSS AREA BUT TEMPS WILL STILL BE AT WORST SEASONABLY MILD. / WILLIAMS && .AVIATION... SCATTERED ELEVATED SHRA/TSRA MOVING EAST ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING. COULD SEE SOME ISOLATED CEILINGS APPROACH MVFR...BUT DRIER AIR IN THE LOWER LEVEL SHOULD KEEP CEILINGS FOR THE MOST PART VFR WITH UNRESTRICTED VISIBILITY. SCT-BKN CUMULUS MAY DEVELOP AFTER 16Z SAT AS THE WAVE DEPARTS...WITH DIURNAL SHRA POSSIBLE 19-24Z. ANY SHOWERS SHOULD MAINLY BE CONFINED TO AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 29. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE WILL EXTEND NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT...BRINGING CLEARING SKIES AND LT/VRBL WINDS. WITH WET GROUND FROM RECENT RAINFALL...THIS COULD LEAD TO AREAS MVFR-LOCALLY IFR VSBYS IN BR AFT 26/08Z. /JH && .FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. IA...NONE. NE...NONE. && WILLIAMS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 408 AM CDT SAT SEP 25 2010 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-261200- 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- 408 AM CDT SAT SEP 25 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY SHOWERS MOVING EAST OVER THE AREA EAST OF THE JAMES RIVER THIS MORNING...EXCEPT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED NEAR THE MISSOURI RIVER EAST OF PICKSTOWN AND INTO NORTHWEST IOWA. NO SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL END FROM THE WEST...BUT A FEW WILL BE POSSIBLE INTO THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY IN NORTHWEST IOWA. FLOODING... FLOODING OF SEVERAL RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL CONTINUE TODAY IN THE WAKE OF HEAVY RAINS OF WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. THESE INCLUDE MAJOR RIVERS SUCH AS THE JAMES...VERMILLION...BIG SIOUX AND LITTLE SIOUX. IN ADDITION...WIDESPREAD AREAL FLOODING CONTINUED THIS MORNING IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...AND IN SOME AREAS NEAR THE MINNESOTA BORDER IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA. THIS AREAL FLOODING OF LOW AREAS INCLUDING ROADS WILL ABATE VERY SLOWLY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SIOUXFALLS. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK. WILLIAMS
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:28 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds caused minor tree damage. The winds were accompanied by small hail.
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