Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1997, 4:26 PM CDT for Deuel County, South Dakota. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report 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, 4:26 PM CDT (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1997, 5:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Deuel County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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, 5:00 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Toronto, 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 137 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, 6 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 10:09 AM CDT, 6 hours 17 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 29 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
ENDLocal storm report, Jun 22, 2:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 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
ENDLocal storm report, Jun 22, 3:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 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
ENDLocal storm report, Jun 22, 3:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 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
ENDLocal storm report, Jun 22, 3:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 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
ENDLocal storm report, Jun 22, 3:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 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
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, 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, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hamlin | 50 min |
| Jun 22, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Deuel | 61 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.