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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Aberdeen, SD

September 5, 2000Corson County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 2000, 6:58 PM MDT for Corson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 32 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
Sep 5, 2000, 6:58 PM MDT (00:58 UTC)
Expired
Sep 5, 2000, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Corson County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 124 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2000-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1062 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2000-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1062 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-229 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1782 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.1

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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 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 Sep 5, 2:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 2:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 5:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand24 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.