BULLETIN – IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
248 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…
SOUTHWESTERN WOODBURY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL IOWA…
DAKOTA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA…
SOUTHEASTERN DIXON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA…

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 248 PM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALLEN…OR 13 MILES SOUTH OF PONCA…AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR…
HUBBARD AROUND 255 PM CDT…
JACKSON AROUND 300 PM CDT…
HOMER AROUND 310 PM CDT…
DAKOTA CITY…SERGEANT BLUFF AND SALIX AROUND 315 PM CDT…

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR…DESTRUCTIVE HAIL…DEADLY LIGHTNING…AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.