Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT for 4 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 60 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
- Aug 4, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Buffalo County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Lyman County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 9:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Rousseau, SD | High winds downed several trees, blew the chimney off of a house, and destroyed a dog kennel. |
| Aug 4, 9:40 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Blunt, SD | |
| Aug 4, 9:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Blunt, SD | High winds destroyed a grain auger. |
| Aug 4, 10:10 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Rousseau, SD | |
| Aug 4, 10:20 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Rousseau, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 2354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1004 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KABR 050231 SVRABR SDC017-065-069-085-117-050330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 930 PM CDT FRI AUG 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUFFALO COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA HUGHES COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA HYDE COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA LYMAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA SOUTHEAST STANLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 930 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST OF ROSSEAU...OR ABOUT 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOWER BRULE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WEST BEND REC AREA AROUND 950 PM CDT STEPHAN AROUND 1015 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE SHELTER NOW! REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO LTHE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN ABERDEEN. $$ LAT...LON 4446 9993 4425 10021 4410 9951 4431 9940 HAASE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 29 min |
| Aug 4, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey, Stanley, Sully | 56 min |
| Aug 4, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Walworth | 57 min |
| Aug 4, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes | 53 min |
| Aug 4, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Sully | 27 min |
| Aug 4, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 55 min |
| Aug 4, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Stanley | 60 min |
| Aug 4, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Potter, Walworth | 42 min |
| Aug 4, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hughes | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Hyde, Lyman | 65 min |
| Aug 4, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Faulk | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 10:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Faulk | 44 min |
| Aug 4, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Faulk | 44 min |
| Aug 4, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Lyman | 46 min |
| Aug 4, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Spink | 48 min |
| Aug 5, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand | 30 min |
| Aug 5, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand | 33 min |
| Aug 5, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Faulk | 67 min |
| Aug 5, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand | 59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.