Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1997, 11:21 AM CDT for Big Stone County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1997, 11:21 AM CDT (16:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1997, 12:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Big Stone County, MN
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3944 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 854 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
346 WUUS1 KABR 281622 RRA SVRABR MNC011-281725- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 1121 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EXTREME NORTHERN BIG STONE COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1225 PM CDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BEARDSLEY AROUND 1125 AM CDT BARRY AROUND 1135 AM CDT GRACEVILLE AROUND 1140 AM CDT JOHNSON AROUND 1150 AM CDT ARTICHOKE AROUND NOON CDT * AT 1119 AM CDT...ABERDEEN DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SISSETON OR 7 MILES WEST OF BEARDSLEY MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THIS STORM PRODUCED DAMAGING WINDS AT SISSETON. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS MM/HG &
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 Jun 27, 8:58 PM CDT, 14 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 8:58 PM CDT, 14 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTH CENTRAL/NORTHEAST SD AND FOR TRAVERSE/BIG STONE COUNTIES OF MN NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 9 PM CDT FRI JUN 28 1997 THIS EVE SNDG SHWS CAP OF 4.4 WITH B+ AT 5280 J/KG...SI AT -7... LI AT -12 AND TOTAL TOTALS AT 59. WE SHUD BE THANKFUL FOR THE CAP. THE LO LVL JET OVR CWA HAS DCRD AS XPCTD & THE WNDS HAS DROP BLO 10 KTS OVR THE PIR AREA. RAOB ALSO SHWS WNDS ALFT HAS DCRD A LTL THIS EVE. THIS SHUD SLO THE MOVMT OF ANY STRMS TNGT. ABR 88D IS PICKING UP THE SVR STRMS OVR ND & NRN MN BUT ALSO ARND RAP & VTN. MDLS SHWS LTL MOVMT IN FNT OVR ND & TROF OVR WRN SD TNGT. THUS & WITH THE CAP WE MAY NOT SEE ANY TSTMS OVR CWA TIL AFTR MIDNGT OR POSSIBLY ERLY MRNG. CRNT TEMPS OVR CWA A LTL LWR THAN MOS GUID BUT FEEL MOS OVR NGT LOWS LOOKS GUD. THEREFORE...FCST LOOK O.K. FOR NOW & DO NOT XPCT TO UPDATE ATTM. .ABR...NONE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 28, 11:02 AM CDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
1102 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 AM 2 E BOWDLE SD 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/28/97 EDMUNDS
0833 AM 2 N HOVEN SD 0.88 INCH HAIL
06/28/97 WALWORTH
1026 AM 4 E ABERDEEN SD 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/28/97 BROWN
MGMLocal storm report, Jun 28, 11:03 AM CDT, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
1102 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 AM 2 E BOWDLE SD 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/28/97 EDMUNDS
0833 AM 2 N HOVEN SD 0.88 INCH HAIL
06/28/97 WALWORTH
1026 AM 4 E ABERDEEN SD 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/28/97 BROWN
MGMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 10:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Traverse | 63 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.