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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 9, 2001McPherson County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2001, 8:47 PM CDT for McPherson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 43 min. 3 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
Jun 9, 2001, 8:47 PM CDT (01:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County McPherson County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 9, 9:05 PM CDTHail 2.5Leola, SDGolfball to tennis ball size hail broke many windows out of several buildings along with severely damaging the siding on the house. Also, the roofs were damaged with holes in the roof of the barn.
Jun 9, 9:15 PM CDTHail 0.88Leola, SD
Jun 9, 9:30 PM CDTHail 1Leola, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 9, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 2001-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1849 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 2001-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1849 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1555 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KABR 100147
TORABR
SDC089-100230-
/NEW.KABR.TO.W.0031.100147-100230/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
847 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MCPHERSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 847 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A TORNADO 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF LONG LAKE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  LONG LAKE AROUND 900 PM CDT
  LEOLA AROUND 925 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 OFFICE IN
ABERDEEN.

$$
LAT...LON 4596 9911 4597 9947 4562 9908 4581 9878

HARDING

The office that day

Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 8:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRJones39 min
Jun 9, 9:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRStanley23 min
Jun 9, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson24 min
Jun 9, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, McPherson32 min
Jun 9, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes, Lyman, Stanley46 min
Jun 9, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson31 min
Jun 9, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell44 min
Jun 9, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo40 min
Jun 9, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown33 min
Jun 9, 10:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDay26 min
Jun 9, 10:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand, Hyde27 min
Jun 9, 10:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRWalworth42 min
Jun 9, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds37 min
Jun 9, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown47 min
Jun 9, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, McPherson61 min
Jun 9, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds30 min
Jun 9, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHamlin40 min
Jun 9, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCodington, Day, Grant50 min
Jun 9, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark50 min
Jun 9, 11:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk27 min
Jun 9, 11:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSpink39 min
Jun 9, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark, Codington34 min
Jun 9, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRGrant34 min
Jun 10, 12:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDeuel, Hamlin42 min
Jun 10, 12:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDeuel18 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.