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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 437

June 12, 200049 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 12, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT for 49 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT (04:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2000, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties

Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Brown County, SD, Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Corson County, SD, Davison County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Grant County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Jones County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McCook County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Potter County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Spink County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Turner County, SD, Walworth County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:04 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.

Warnings issued inside it

5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds, Faulk61 min
Jun 13, 1:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMcCook30 min
Jun 13, 1:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLake, Minnehaha37 min
Jun 13, 2:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDeuel41 min
Jun 13, 2:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrookings36 min

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 92 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 2000-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1083 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1083 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBon Homme, Clay, Union, Yankton5 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.