BULLETIN – IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
103 AM CDT TUE AUG 23 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…
NORTHERN CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA…
SOUTHERN DICKINSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA…
NORTHERN O’BRIEN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA…
SOUTHERN OSCEOLA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA…

* UNTIL 145 AM CDT

* AT 102 AM 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 MELVIN…OR 22 MILES SOUTH OF WORTHINGTON…AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

AT 1258 AM CDT QUARTER SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED IN ASHTON WITH THIS STORM.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR…
HARTLEY AROUND 115 AM CDT…
EVERLY AROUND 130 AM CDT…
MILFORD…WEST OKOBOJI…ARNOLDS PARK AND WAHPETON AROUND 140 AM CDT…
FOSTORIA AND SPENCER AROUND 145 AM 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.