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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Aberdeen, SD

August 4, 2000Stanley County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2000, 8:30 PM MDT for Stanley County, South Dakota. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 4, 2000, 8:30 PM MDT (02:30 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2000, 9:30 PM MDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Whole counties

County Stanley County, SD

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, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 1363 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2332 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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

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 Aug 4, 8:14 PM MDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 8:14 PM MDT, 16 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
915 PM CDT THU AUG 3 2000

CURRENT ZONE PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD. RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. THE
THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUES ACROSS THE ENTIRE WATCH AREA
ALONG WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN. NO UPDATES MADE TO THE
ZONES.

.ABR...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
       SOUTH DAKOTA AND BIG STONE AND TRAVERSE COUNTIES IN
       MINNESOTA.

ECKBERG
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 4, 5:35 PM MDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
635 PM CDT FRI AUG 4 2000

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

0600 PM    EAGLE BUTTE               SD   .75 INCH HAIL
08/04/00   DEWEY

JH

N

Local storm report, Aug 4, 6:34 PM MDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
734 PM CDT FRI AUG 4 2000

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

0710 PM    6 W RIDGEVIEW             SD   .88 INCH HAIL
08/04/00   DEWEY                          NICKLE SIZE HAIL.

JH

N

Local storm report, Aug 4, 7:28 PM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
828 PM CDT FRI AUG 4 2000

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

0800 PM    MISSION RIDGE             SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/04/00   STANLEY                        GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL COVERED
                                          THE GROUND.  1.4 INCHES OF
                                          RAIN.

JH

N

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 6:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Dewey	29 min
Aug 4, 6:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Dewey, Stanley, Sully	56 min
Aug 4, 7:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Campbell, Walworth	57 min
Aug 4, 7:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes	53 min
Aug 4, 7:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Sully	27 min
Aug 4, 7:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Edmunds	55 min
Aug 4, 8:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Hughes, Hyde, Lyman	60 min
Aug 4, 8:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Potter, Walworth	42 min
Aug 4, 8:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Edmunds	47 min
Aug 4, 8:44 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Hughes	31 min
Aug 4, 9:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes	31 min
Aug 4, 9:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Hyde, Lyman	65 min
Aug 4, 9:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk	49 min
Aug 4, 9:31 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Faulk	44 min
Aug 4, 10:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk	44 min
Aug 4, 10:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Lyman	46 min
Aug 4, 10:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Spink	48 min
Aug 4, 11:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand	30 min
Aug 4, 11:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand	33 min
Aug 5, 1:38 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk	67 min
Aug 5, 2:31 AM MDT	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.