Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 212, NWS Aberdeen, SD

August 29, 1997Codington County, Day County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1997, 7:50 PM CDT for Codington County, Day County, South Dakota. It was in force for 65 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 29, 1997, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 1997, 8:55 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Whole counties

Counties Codington County, SD, Day County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Aug 29, 8:26 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Waubay, SD
Aug 29, 8:26 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Waubay, SD
Aug 29, 8:26 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Webster, SD

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 259 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -129 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 929 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -2.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 29, 10:50 AM CDT, 9 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 10:50 AM CDT, 9 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTH CENTRAL/NORTHEAST SD
AND FOR TRAVERSE/BIG STONE COUNTIES OF MN
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
1050 AM CDT FRI AUG 29 1997

88D AND SAT LOOP SHOW SCT TSTMS POPPING OVER WRN SD AS FRONT AND
SHORT WAVE MOVE SLOWLY EAST. HAVE UPDATED TO INCREASE POPS OVER CENTRAL
SD AND INTRODUCE SLIGHT CHC OF TSTMS AS FAR EAST AS ABR AND REDFIELD.
ALSO REMOVED POPS IN WC MN ZONES AND LOWER HIGHS A BIT AS LOW CLDS ARE
SLOW TO DISSIPATE.

.ABR...NONE.

MGM

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 29, 6:57 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  ABERDEEN SD
657 PM CDT FRI AUG 29 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0645 PM    GROTON                    SD   60 MPH WIND GUST
08/29/97   BROWN

END

Local storm report, Aug 29, 7:20 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  ABERDEEN SD
720 PM CDT FRI AUG 29 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0720 PM    1 S PIERPONT              SD   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/29/97   DAY

END

Local storm report, Aug 29, 7:21 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  ABERDEEN SD
720 PM CDT FRI AUG 29 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0720 PM    1 S PIERPONT              SD   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/29/97   DAY

END

The office that day

Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 29, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Clark	64 min
Aug 29, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Campbell	66 min
Aug 29, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Grant, Roberts	64 min
Aug 29, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson, Dewey, Walworth	63 min
Aug 29, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown, Edmunds	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.