BULLETIN – IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
918 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…
SOUTHWESTERN PLYMOUTH COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA…
WESTERN DAKOTA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA…
SOUTHEASTERN DIXON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA…
SOUTHERN UNION COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA…

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 918 PM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL…AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR EMERSON…OR 17 MILES SOUTH OF PONCA…AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR…
HUBBARD AROUND 925 PM CDT…
MARTINSBURG AROUND 930 PM CDT…
PONCA AND JACKSON AROUND 935 PM CDT…
NORTH SIOUX CITY AROUND 940 PM CDT…
JEFFERSON AND ELK POINT AROUND 945 PM CDT…

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
WATERBURY.

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.