Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Aug 4, 2000, 9:44 PM CDT for Hughes County, South Dakota. It was in force for 31 min. 2 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
- Aug 4, 2000, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hughes County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 10:10 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Rousseau, SD | |
| Aug 4, 10:20 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Rousseau, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 2354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1004 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KABR 050245
TORABR
SDC065-050315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
944 PM CDT FRI AUG 4 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
HUGHES COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
* AT 944 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED OVER HUGHES COUNTY...OR
ABOUT 21 MILES EAST OF PIERRE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
RURAL HUGHES COUNTY THROUGH 1000 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.i THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
ABERDEEN.
$$
LAT...LON 4445 9997 4436 10001 4430 10001 4429 9992
4425 9990 4422 9976 4420 9971 4422 9971
4422 9967 4440 9967
TDKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 29 min |
| Aug 4, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey, Stanley, Sully | 56 min |
| Aug 4, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Walworth | 57 min |
| Aug 4, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes | 53 min |
| Aug 4, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Sully | 27 min |
| Aug 4, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 55 min |
| Aug 4, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Hughes, Hyde, Lyman | 60 min |
| Aug 4, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Stanley | 60 min |
| Aug 4, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Potter, Walworth | 42 min |
| Aug 4, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Hyde, Lyman | 65 min |
| Aug 4, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Faulk | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 10:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Faulk | 44 min |
| Aug 4, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Faulk | 44 min |
| Aug 4, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Lyman | 46 min |
| Aug 4, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Spink | 48 min |
| Aug 5, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand | 30 min |
| Aug 5, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand | 33 min |
| Aug 5, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Faulk | 67 min |
| Aug 5, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand | 59 min |
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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.