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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Aberdeen, SD

May 29, 2000Buffalo County, Hand County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2000, 4:44 AM CDT for Buffalo County, Hand County, South Dakota. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 2000, 4:44 AM CDT (09:44 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2000, 5:15 AM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Buffalo County, SD, Hand County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 85 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2000-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2000-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2465 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

660 
WUUS53 KABR 290945
SVRABR
SDC017-059-291015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
444 AM CDT MON MAY 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BUFFALO COUNTY IN SOUTH DAKOTA
  HAND COUNTY IN SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 515 AM CDT

* AT 444 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF AMES...OR ABOUT 20 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF FORT THOMPSON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  NEAR DANFORTH AROUND 500 AM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS.
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR.

SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

LAT...LON 4430 9915 4412 9916 4420 9870 4433 9870

HINTZ

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 3:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes26 min
May 29, 3:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Hughes, Hyde46 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.