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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 3, 2000Edmunds County, Potter County, Walworth County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2000, 11:49 AM CDT for Edmunds County, Potter County, Walworth County, South Dakota. It was in force for 41 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: Jun 3, 2000, 11:49 AM CDT (16:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2000, 12:30 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Whole counties

Counties Edmunds County, SD, Potter County, SD, Walworth County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:51 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
Jun 3, 12:05 PM CDT	Hail 1	Lowry, 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 nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1422 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 331 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

617 
WUUS53 KABR 031650
SVRABR
SDC045-049-107-129-031730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
1149 AM CDT SAT JUN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EDMUNDS COUNTY IN SOUTH DAKOTA
  FAULK COUNTY IN SOUTH DAKOTA
  POTTER COUNTY IN SOUTH DAKOTA
  WALWORTH COUNTY IN SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 1230 PM CDT

* AT 1149 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF ONAKA...OR ABOUT 17 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF SELBY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  6 MILES NORTH OF ONAKA AROUND 1215 PM CDT
  NEAR LOYALTON AROUND 1225 PM CDT
  NEAR NORBECK AROUND 1235 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS.

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

$$

LAT...LON 4542 9977 4525 9982 4510 9905 4534 9896

HARDING

NNNN

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 Jun 3, 3:30 AM CDT, 8 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 3:30 AM CDT, 8 hours 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
330 AM CDT SAT JUN 3 2000

MAIN CHALLENGES TODAY ARE POPS AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES. SFC LOW
DEVELOPING OVER E WY WILL SHIFT EAST TODAY WITH WM FNT EXTENDING TO
E-SE...PROVIDING LOW LEVEL FOCUS FOR CONVECTION...WHILE U/L SHORT
WAVE MOVING ALONG CAN BORDER WILL MOVE SE ADDING ENERGY/LIFT. MODELS
IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT OVERALL...ALL HAVE SAME BASIC TRENDS.
FOLLOWED ETA FOR MAIN DETAILS THIS PACKAGE. TODAY...WATCHING
THUNDERSTORMS NW SD-WY...APPEAR TO BE MOVING INTO MORE STABLE AIR TO
THE EAST ACCORDING TO GOES SOUNDER LIS AND CAPES. WILL WATCH FOR
POTENTIAL IMPACTS TO WESTERN ZONES THIS MORNING. OTHERWISE...SIMILAR
TO PREVIOUS DAY...SEE BEST LAYER MOISTURE NE PORTION OF AREA LATER
TODAY/TONIGHT...BUT BEST INSTABILITY WEST AND SOUTHWEST PORTION OF
AREA THIS AFTN-EARLY EVE. HAVE UPPED POPS SLIGHTLY FROM PREVIOUS
PACKAGE E AND NE...BUT LEFT AT 30 PERCENT W AND SW. AGREE WITH SPC
ON SLIGHT RISK TODAY...BUT AGAIN...BEST THREAT W AND SW PORTION OF
AREA. MODELS DIFFER ON DETAILS OF SFC LOW MOVEMENT...BUT ALL SEEM TO
PUSH LOW S AND THEN E THROUGH TODAY/TONIGHT. WARM SECTOR WILL HAVE
MOST EFFECT ON S-W/CNTL PORTION OF AREA. WITH MID LEVEL MOISTURE A
BIT LACKING THERE...FEEL STORMS WILL BE ISOLATED. HOWEVER...ANY THAT
DO FORM HAVE REASONABLE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE....THOUGH WILL
NOT MENTION SEVERE POSSIBILITY FOR NOW...WILL LEAVE FOR DAY SHIFT TO
FURTHER EVALUATE. FURTHER E AND NE...ETA CAPES AND LIS ONLY
MARGINALLY UNSTABLE...BUT MDT-STRONG SHEAR COULD POTENTIALLY SUPPORT
SOME ROTATION IN THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVE/TONIGHT. SE WINDS SHOULD
INCREASE THIS MORNING AS GRADIENT TIGHTENS...ALREADY ABOUT 8-10 MB
ACROSS W 1/2 OF SD EARLY THIS MORNING. WINDS WILL LIKELY STAY BREEZY
AS LOW MOVES EAST AND WINDS SHIFT TO NE-NW LATE TONIGHT AND SUN...MAYBE
A BIT STRONGER WITH 850 MB CAA ON SUNDAY. FWC AND FAN TEMPS FAIRLY
CLOSE AND FOLLOWED A COMPROMISE.

.ABR...NONE
LORENS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 3, 8:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN, SD
845 AM CDT SAT JUN 3 2000

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

0116 PM    SELBY                     SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/00   WALWORTH

Local storm report, Jun 3, 10:24 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN, SD
1024 AM CDT SAT JUN 3 2000

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

1005 AM    TIMBER LAKE               SD   .88 INCH HAIL
06/03/00   DEWEY                          CO-OP OBSERVER REPORTED

SEB

Local storm report, Jun 3, 11:41 AM CDT, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN, SD
1141 AM CDT SAT JUN 3 2000

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

1105 AM    4 S HOVEN                 SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/03/00   POTTER                         REPORTED BY OFF DUTY NWS
                                          EMPLOYEE

SEB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 10:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Edmunds, Faulk, Potter	34 min
Jun 3, 11:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk	41 min
Jun 3, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Walworth	31 min
Jun 3, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk	29 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.