Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1997, 2:47 PM CDT for Clark County, South Dakota. It was in force for 58 min. 5 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
- Jun 22, 1997, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1997, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 3:09 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Raymond, SD | |
| Jun 22, 3:18 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Clark, SD | |
| Jun 22, 3:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Garden City, SD | |
| Jun 22, 3:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Vienna, SD | Dime size hail falling for several minutes piled up into 1 to 2 feet drifts in some spots. |
| Jun 22, 3:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 | Vienna, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 1357 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 22, 10:09 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 10:09 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTH CENTRAL/NORTHEAST SD AND FOR TRAVERSE/BIG STONE COUNTIES OF MN NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 10 AM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997 88D SHWS SHWRS & TSTSM MOVG ACRS CBWA ATTM. SOME CUD BCM SVR. CRNT FCST LOOKS FINE & WIL LET IT RIDE FOR NOW. .ABR...NONE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 22, 1:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
137 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0137 PM 3 W ROCKHAM SD 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/22/97 FAULK
ENDLocal storm report, Jun 22, 1:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
137 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0137 PM> 3 W ROCKHAM SD 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/22/97 FAULK
ENDLocal storm report, Jun 22, 2:08 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
208 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0209 PM REDFIELD SD 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/22/97 SPINK
ENDLocal storm report, Jun 22, 2:09 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
208 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0209 PM REDFIELD SD 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/22/97 SPINK
ENDLocal storm report, Jun 22, 2:12 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
212 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0211 PM REDFIELD SD 2.50 INCH HAIL
06/22/97 SPINK
ENDLocal storm report, Jun 22, 2:13 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
212 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0211 PM REDFIELD SD 2.50 INCH HAIL
06/22/97 SPINK
ENDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey, Potter | 46 min |
| Jun 22, 6:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Corson | 64 min |
| Jun 22, 6:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Walworth | 62 min |
| Jun 22, 7:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Walworth | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 8:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Walworth | 35 min |
| Jun 22, 8:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Faulk | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 10:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Corson | 47 min |
| Jun 22, 11:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Potter | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 11:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, McPherson | 49 min |
| Jun 22, 11:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 11:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 11:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Faulk | 64 min |
| Jun 22, 12:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | McPherson, Walworth | 30 min |
| Jun 22, 12:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 12:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Faulk | 33 min |
| Jun 22, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | McPherson | 64 min |
| Jun 22, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Spink | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Faulk, Hand | 62 min |
| Jun 22, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Edmunds | 48 min |
| Jun 22, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Spink | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Spink | 32 min |
| Jun 22, 2:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Clark | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Spink | 35 min |
| Jun 22, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Clark | 48 min |
| Jun 22, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Codington, Hamlin | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hamlin | 50 min |
| Jun 22, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Deuel | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Deuel | 59 min |
| Jun 22, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hamlin | 32 min |
| Jun 22, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Clark | 49 min |
| Jun 22, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hamlin | 59 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.