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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 24, 2002Brown County, Edmunds County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2002, 11:51 PM CDT for Brown County, Edmunds County, South Dakota. It was in force for 39 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 24, 2002, 11:51 PM CDT (04:51 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2002, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Brown County, SD, Edmunds County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 24, 11:55 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 61 E	Mina, SD	Seventy mph winds blew a large trailer across a yard.
Jul 25, 12:11 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 63 M	Aberdeen Arpt, SD	Seventy mph winds downed some trees and many branches throughout Aberdeen. Some trees fell on power lines knocking power out for several hours for over 2000 people in Aberdeen. A couple of vehicles were damaged from trees or branches falling on them. A large
Jul 25, 12:25 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Groton, SD	Sixty mph winds blew off some large advertising signs at the ball field.

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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 24, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 69 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2473 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 14.5

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The text

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

301 
WUUS53 KABR 250451
SVRABR
SDC013-045-250530-
/NEW.KABR.SV.W.0180.250451-250530/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
1151 PM CDT WED JUL 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT

* AT 1151 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF MINA...OR ABOUT 8 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF IPSWICH...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RICHMOND LAKE REC AREA AROUND MIDNIGHT CDT
  ABERDEEN AROUND 1210 AM CDT
  BATH...COLUMBIA AROUND 1215 AM CDT
  GROTON...PUTNEY AROUND 1225 AM CDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND 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 4559 9888 4539 9889 4533 9799 4566 9800

KEEFE

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 24, 8:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 8:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/N-EAST SD AND W-CENTRAL MN
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
840 PM CDT WED JUL 24 2002

INITIAL WAVE OF CONVECTION IS DRIFTING OUT OF THE CWA ATTM WHILE A
SECOND WAVE CONTINUES TO DEVELOP ACROSS NODAK. THIS ASSOCIATED WITH
THE NEXT SHORT WAVE MOVING THROUGH THE NORTHWEST FLOW. SFC BOUNDARY
HAS PROGRESSED THROUGH NW 1/3 OF THE CWA...BUT APPERARS TO BE MAKING
LITTLE ADDITIONAL PROGRESS ATTM. WITH APPROACH OF THE NW SHORT WAVE
THIS BOUNDARY SHOULD BEGIN TO MOVE. TSTMS OVER NODAK MAY BE MORE
ELEVATED IN NATURE...BUT DID NOT RATHER STRONG GUSTY WINDS ACROSS
THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE STATE. WITH THIS ACTIVITY DROPPING SE
WILL MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO CURRENT ZONE PACKAGE TO INCLUDE CONVECTION
FOR A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME OUT WEST.

.ABR...NONE
FAUCETTE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 24, 9:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN, SD
909 PM CDT WED JUL 24 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0730 PM    PIERRE                    SD   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/24/02   HUGHES

0740 PM    10 NW PIERRE              SD   83 MPH TSTORM WIND
07/24/02   HUGHES                         REPORTED BY ASOS AT PIERRE
                                          REGIONAL AIRPORT

Special weather statement, Jul 24, 10:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

SDZ018>020-022-023-250330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
1000 PM CDT WED JUL 24 2002

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 525 HAS EXPIRED...

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP WELL TO THE SOUTH AND MOVE EAST OF
EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER
ENDING...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

MF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes, Sully	44 min
Jul 24, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Stanley	23 min
Jul 24, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Lyman	40 min
Jul 24, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Lyman	38 min
Jul 24, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Lyman	23 min
Jul 24, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	41 min
Jul 24, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Campbell	48 min
Jul 24, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Walworth	25 min
Jul 25, 12:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown, Clark, Day, Faulk, Marshall, Spink	62 min
Jul 25, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Grant, Roberts	44 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.