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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 22, 1997Hamlin County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1997, 4:00 PM CDT for Hamlin County, South Dakota. It was in force for 50 min. 7 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, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 1997, 4:50 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Whole counties

County Hamlin County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Hayti, SD	A weak narrow path tornado touched down 7 miles southeast of Hayti. Path length and width were estimated.
Jun 22, 4:28 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Lake Norden, SD	A tornado touched down near Lake Norden with no damage reported. Path length and width were estimated.
Jun 22, 4:41 PM CDT	Hail 1	Dempster, SD
Jun 22, 4:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Castlewood, SD
Jun 22, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Bryant, SD	A tornado touched down near Bryant and moved some grain bins about 3/4 of a mile and uprooted several trees in a shelter belt.
Jun 22, 5:00 PM CDT	Hail 1	Castlewood, SD
Jun 22, 5:00 PM CDT	Hail 1	Hayti, 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABR 222100 RRA
TORABR
SDC057-222150-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
400 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  HAMLIN COUNTY - NORTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 450 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  HAYTI                               AROUND 410 PM CDT
  THOMAS                              AROUND 410 PM CDT
  CASTLEWOOD                          AROUND 425 PM CDT
  DEMPSTER                            AROUND 435 PM CDT

* AT 358 PM CDT...ABERDEEN DOPPLER RADAR AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
  INDICATED A TORNADO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WATERTOWN OR 8 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF HAYTI  MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOMl ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

TDK/DEE

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, 5 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 10:09 AM CDT, 5 hours 51 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, 2:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  ABERDEEN SD
257 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997

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

0245 PM    14 SW DOLAND              SD   TORNADO
06/22/97   SPINK                          BRIEF TOUCHDOWN NEAR
                                          GLENDALE COLONY

END

Local storm report, Jun 22, 2:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  ABERDEEN SD
257 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997

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

0245 PM    14 SW DOLAND              SD   TORNADO
06/22/97   SPINK                          BRIEF TOUCHDOWN NEAR
                                          GLENDALE COLONY

END

Local storm report, Jun 22, 3:09 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  ABERDEEN SD
309 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997

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

0309 PM    RAYMOND                   SD   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/22/97   CLARK

END

Local storm report, Jun 22, 3:10 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  ABERDEEN SD
309 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997

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

0309 PMd    RAYMOND                   SD   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/22/97   CLARK

END

Local storm report, Jun 22, 3:19 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  ABERDEEN SD
319 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997

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

0318 PM    4 W CLARK                 SD   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/22/97   CLARK

END

Local storm report, Jun 22, 3:20 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  ABERDEEN SD
319 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997

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

0318 PM    4 W CLARK                 SD   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/22/97   CLARK

END

The 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, 2:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Clark	58 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, 4:24 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.