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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 5, 1999Buffalo County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 1999, 9:55 PM CDT for Buffalo County, South Dakota. It was in force for 4 hr. 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 5, 1999, 9:55 PM CDT (02:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1999, 1:55 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Whole counties

County Buffalo County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 724 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 5, 9:15 PM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 9:15 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before

SDZ019>023-045-048-051-060400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
439 PM CDT (339 PM MDT) SAT JUN 5 1999

...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM CDT/ 10PM MDT...

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 11PM CDT/10PM MDT. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
ARE IN THE WATCH...JONES...LYMANN...BUFFALO...CLARK...CODINGTON...
HAMLIN...GRANT...AND DEUEL.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA
AND WESTERN NEBRASKA AND THEN MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE REGION TONIGHT.
SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ALONG
WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN.

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:26 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  ABERDEEN SD
526 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 1999

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

1010 PM    3 W MURDO                 SD   TORNADO
06/04/99   JONES                          SHERIFF SPOTTED BRIEF
                                          TOUCHDOWN AT REST AREA
                                          WHICH DAMAGED TRAILOR
                                          PART OF SEMI

END

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Hamlin	32 min
Jun 5, 8:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Codington, Hamlin	50 min
Jun 5, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Jones	48 min
Jun 5, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo	49 min
Jun 5, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand	63 min
Jun 5, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Stanley	63 min
Jun 5, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo	47 min
Jun 5, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hamlin	47 min
Jun 5, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Codington	49 min
Jun 5, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand	48 min
Jun 6, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Roberts	48 min
Jun 6, 2:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	61 min
Jun 6, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Traverse	42 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in South Dakota, 1999 Every flash flood warning in 1999

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.