Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Aberdeen, SD

Issued

Jul 20, 2001, 6:59 AM CDT (11:59 UTC)

Expired

Jul 20, 2001, 7:45 AM CDT

In force

46 min

Issued by

NWS Aberdeen, SD

Area

Whole counties

County Brown County, SD

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

000 
WUUS53 KABR 201159
SVRABR

SDC013-201245-
/NEW.KABR.SV.W.0217.201159-201245/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
659 AM CDT FRI JUL 20 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BROWN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 745 AM CDT

* AT 659 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 16 MILES WEST OF HECLA TO 8 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF BATH...OR FROM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELLENDALE TO 5
  MILES SOUTH OF ABERDEEN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  HOUGHTON...PUTNEY AROUND 715 AM CDT
  GROTON...HECLA AROUND 730 AM CDT
  FERNEY AROUND 735 AM CDT
  CLAREMONT AROUND 740 AM CDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A
STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
ABERDEEN.

$$
LAT...LON 4600 9844 4532 9846 4530 9799 4598 9801

HINTZ

NWS Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 20, 2:35 AM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
235 AM CDT FRI JUL 20 2001

JUST ENOUGH DETAILS TO KEEP TRACK OF FOR THIS FCST TO MAKE IT
DIFFICULT. CURRENT CONVECTION SEEMS TO BE DUE TO SEVERAL FACTORS.
FIRST IS STRENGTH OF LOW LEVEL JET DEVELOPING OUT WEST. KUDX VAD WID
PROFILE SHOWS SPEEDS INCR IN LOWER GATES. LOOKING AT 700-500MB MEAN
VORTICITY...CONVECTION ALSO FIRING IN FAVORED POSN COMPARED TO WAVE
MOVING THROUGH WRN SD. 00Z ETA/M-ETA SHOW TSRA IN ND MAKING A RIGHT
TURN AND SLIDING SE THROUGH XTRM NERN SD. HOWEVER...AVN SHOWS
CONVECTION CONT TO MOVE NE INTO ND WITH SMALL AMT OF NVA WORKING IN.
JUDGING FROM IR SAT PIX...WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT AVN WINS THIS
ROUND. WILL HAVE TO MENTION SOME MORNING TSRA ACROSS THE NRN TIER
GROUPS. WITH AIR MASSES VIRTUALLY UNCHANGED...HIGHS TODAY SHOULD BE
SIMILAR TO THURSDAY'S...AND TWEAKED WHERE NECESSARY. WINDS WILL BE
TOUGH...DUE IN LARGE PART TO NUMBER OF BOUNDARIES THAT ARE FLOATING
AROUND. MEAN DIRECTION SHOULD BE SE AND WILL MENTION THIS IN ZONES.
FOR TONIGHT...NEXT IN SERIES OF WAVES MOVES THROUGH IN SW FLOW.
MODELS POINT TO SOME MINOR TSRA DEVELOPING LATER THIS AFTERNOON IN
KMBG AREA...BUT REAL THREAT WILL RESIDE FURTHER WEST. EXPECT MOST
ACTIVITY TO TAKE PLACE SERN MT/SWRN ND...THEN TREND SSE OVERNIGHT
INTO CWA. AGAIN...STRENGTHENING LOW LEVEL JET PLAYS MAJOR ROLE
HERE...WITH AVN SHOWING THAT BEST VEERING TAKES PLACE FURTHER WEST.
BY TIME TSRA GETS INTO CWA...PROBABLY JUST LOOKING AT HEAVY RAIN.
MEAN PATTERN CHANGES LITTLE THROUGH FCST PERIOD...WITH WARM AND
HUMID CONDS STICKING AROUND.

.ABR...NONE.
HINTZ

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.