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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Aberdeen, SD

May 30, 2000Hand County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2000, 6:03 AM CDT for Hand County, South Dakota. It was in force for 27 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
May 30, 2000, 6:03 AM CDT (11:03 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 2000, 6:30 AM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Hand County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:02 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 30, 6:05 AM CDTHail 1St Lawrence, 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 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 62 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 2000-05-30Temperature 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 2000-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 132 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
937 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
508 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KABR 301104
TORABR
SDC059-301130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
603 AM CDT TUE MAY 30 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HAND COUNTY IN SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 630 AM CDT

* AT 603 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF REE HEIGHTS...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF
  MILLER. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE...
  NEAR MILLER AROUND 610 AM CDT
  NEAR SAINT LAWRENCE AROUND 615 AM CDT
  NEAR VAYLAND AROUND 620 AM CDT

IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM
ON THE LOWE*ST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE.
$$
LAT...LON 4465 9929 4447 9931 4440 9839 4462 9837

KEEFE

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 5:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand, Hyde, Sully56 min
May 30, 6:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark, Hamlin61 min
May 30, 6:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand, Spink61 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.