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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 27, 1999Spink County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1999, 5:55 PM CDT for Spink County, South Dakota. It was in force for 45 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
Jul 27, 1999, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1999, 6:40 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Spink County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 27, 6:00 PM CDTHail 1.75Redfield, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 27, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

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 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 Jul 27, 2:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 2:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
300 PM CDT TUE JULY 27 1999

FORECAST PROBLEM REVOLVES AROUND CONVECTION THIS EVENING AND
TONIGHT. SFC TROF NOW IN WESTERN CWA AND MOVING EAST. MOISTURE CONTS
TO POOL AHEAD OF THE TROF...WITH MID TO UPPER 70S FOR DWPTS
EXPECTED. 17Z GOES SOUNDER HAS CAPES INVOF 32 KJ/KG...WHICH IS
ACTUALLY LINES UP WELL WITH 18Z KABR SOUNDING THAT SPC ORDERED.
MODIFYING 18Z SOUNDING FOR EXPECTED HIGHS/DWPTS SHOWS THAT CAP
ERODES COMPLETELY WITH CAPES AROUND 59 KJ/KG WITH LI'S TO -14. ETA
BUFKIT SHOWS THAT PWATS INCREASE TO NEAR 1.75 INCHES FROM 22Z TO 04Z
TNT. DIRECTIONAL SHEAR A BIT LACKING...BUT POSSIBLY MADE UP WITH
SPEED SHEAR. ETA SHOWS WEAK 5H VORT MAX SLIDING THROUGH FROM
06-12Z...WHILE 7H VORT MAX MOVES THROUGH 00-06Z. BY 00Z THETA-E
RIDGE POPS UP IN WRN SD...MOVING INTO THE ERN CWA BY 06Z. WILL GO
WITH FAIRLY HIGH POPS THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. ETA ALSO SHOWS DEEP
MOISTURE PLUME WORKING UP FROM DESERT SW AREA. DUE TO THIS...WILL
ALSO MENTION HEAVY RAIN. ON WED...MDLS SHOW DRY AIR SLIDING IN A LOW
LEVELS BEHIND TROF/COLD FRONT. WITH RIDGE BUILDING...THIS SHOULD
ALLOW TEMPS TO CLIMB NICELY. SAME HOLDS FOR THURSDAY. WILL FOLLOW
MOS TEMPS...AS THEY SEEM REASONABLE.

...EXTENDED FORECAST DISCUSSION...

COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE AREA ON FRIDAY BRINGING A CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS TO THE REGION. COLD FRONT WILL PUSH EAST OF THE AREA
BY SATURDAY MORNING BRINGING COOLER AND DRIER CONDITIONS. COLD FRONT
SHOULD STALL SOUTH OF SOUTH DAKOTA LATE IN THE WEEKEND.

.ABR...TOR WATCH #591 NERN SD AND BIG STONE/TRAVERSE COUNTIES IN MN
UNTIL 01Z.

HINTZ/ECKBERG

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds51 min
Jul 27, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSully36 min
Jul 27, 4:03 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown32 min
Jul 27, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHyde, Sully50 min
Jul 27, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown46 min
Jul 27, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRMarshall47 min
Jul 27, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSpink64 min
Jul 27, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk47 min
Jul 27, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand, Hyde62 min
Jul 27, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRRoberts50 min
Jul 27, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRGrant50 min
Jul 27, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.