Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jul 11, 2000, 1:54 PM CDT for Brown County, South Dakota. It was in force for 51 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, 1:54 PM CDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2000, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:53 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, 1:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Aberdeen, SD | |
| Jul 11, 2:08 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Aberdeen, SD | |
| Jul 11, 2:34 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Groton, SD | Winds to 70 mph destroyed a cattle shelter and broke a window out of the house. |
| Jul 11, 2:42 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Groton, SD | High winds buckled the walls of a mobile home south of Groton. |
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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 77 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 111854 TORABR SDC013-111945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 154 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BROWN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 154 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF ABERDEEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ABERDEEN AROUND 200 PM CDT BATH AROUND 215 PM CDT PUTNEY AROUND 220 PM CDT 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...LON 4545 9858 4529 9844 4552 9798 4567 9799 KEARNS
The 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, 12:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 33 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, 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.