BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
500 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…
SOUTHEASTERN DAKOTA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA…

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 459 PM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL UP TO BASEBALL SIZE…AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DAKOTA CITY…OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF SIOUX CITY…AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR…
SALIX AROUND 515 PM CDT…
SLOAN AROUND 530 PM CDT…
HORNICK AROUND 540 PM CDT…
SMITHLAND AROUND 545 PM CDT…

LARGEST HAIL UP TO BASEBALL SIZE IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR FOR AREAS AROUND HUBBARD…HOMER…AND SOUTHWEST OF DAKOTA CITY…SALIX AND SLOAN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM…PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER…PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.