Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 5:07 PM CDT for Codington County, Hamlin County, South Dakota. It was in force for 38 min. 1 report 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 13, 2001, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Codington County, SD, Hamlin County, SD
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Hazel, SD | A tornado touched down briefly northwest of Hazel. No damage occurred. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KABR 132207 TORABR SDC029-057-132245- /NEW.KABR.TO.W.0033.132207-132245/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 507 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CODINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA NORTHWESTERN HAMLIN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 507 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF HAZEL...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLARK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HENRY AROUND 515 PM CDT SANDY SHORE STATE PARK AROUND 540 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 I N ABERDEEN. $$ LAT...LON 4485 9750 4466 9745 4487 9705 4504 9734 BINAU
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand | 27 min |
| Jun 12, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Lyman | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Buffalo | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Buffalo | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 3:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Clark, Deuel, Hamlin | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Deuel | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Spink | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Deuel, Grant | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Clark, Spink | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Grant | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Codington | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Day | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Day | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Grant | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Marshall | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Day | 14 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.