Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jul 11, 2000, 12:57 PM CDT for Edmunds County, South Dakota. It was in force for 33 min. 4 reports 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
- Jul 11, 2000, 12:57 PM CDT (17:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2000, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Edmunds County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 1:00 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Mina, SD | |
| Jul 11, 1:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Mina, SD | |
| Jul 11, 1:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Mina, SD | |
| Jul 11, 1:32 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Roscoe, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 86 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 683 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 957 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KABR 111757
TORABR
SDC045-111830-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
1257 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEN HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EDMUNDS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
* UNTIL 130 PM CDT
* AT 1257 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINA...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
IPSWICH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
MINA AROUND 110 PM CDT
THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.
THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING
SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO TAKE SHELTER NOW!
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN ABERDEEN.
$$
LAT...L{ON 4544 9889 4531 9878 4536 9872 4557 9874
KEARNSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 11:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | McPherson | 33 min |
| Jul 11, 12:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 33 min |
| Jul 11, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 34 min |
| Jul 11, 1:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Brown | 51 min |
| Jul 11, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 34 min |
| Jul 11, 1:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Brown | 51 min |
| Jul 11, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Day | 28 min |
| Jul 11, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Spink | 25 min |
| Jul 11, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Day | 46 min |
| Jul 11, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Spink | 44 min |
| Jul 11, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Codington, Grant, Roberts | 50 min |
| Jul 11, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand | 42 min |
| Jul 11, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Clark, Spink | 45 min |
| Jul 11, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Roberts | 30 min |
| Jul 11, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand | 43 min |
| Jul 11, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hamlin | 44 min |
| Jul 11, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Clark | 50 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.