Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 6:17 PM CDT for Day County, South Dakota. It was in force for 28 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 13, 2001, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Day County, SD
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Webster, SD | |
| Jun 13, 6:34 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Webster, SD | |
| Jun 13, 6:48 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Waubay, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 132317 TORABR SDC037-132345- /NEW.KABR.TO.W.0036.132317-132345/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 617 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DAY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 617 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF WEBSTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... WEBSTER AROUND 625 PM CDT WAUBAY...GRENVILLE...ROSLYN AROUND 640 PM CDT WAUBAY WILDLIFE REFUGE AROUND 645 PM CDT THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 REPOLRT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN ABERDEEN. $$ LAT...LON 4530 9773 4513 9756 4536 9721 4554 9745 HARDING
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, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Codington, Hamlin | 38 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, 6:19 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.