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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 25, 2002Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota; Roberts County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2002, 5:22 PM CDT for Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota; Roberts County, South Dakota. It was in force for 53 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: Jun 25, 2002, 5:22 PM CDT (22:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2002, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Big Stone County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Roberts County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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

Time	Report	Where
Jun 25, 5:25 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Sisseton, SD
Jun 25, 5:27 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Sisseton, SD
Jun 25, 5:58 PM CDT	Hail 1	Browns Vly, MN

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
Jun 25, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -324 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1156 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KABR 252222
SVRABR
MNC011-155-SDC109-252315-
/NEW.KABR.SV.W.0125.252222-252315/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
522 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ROBERTS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA
  BIG STONE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  TRAVERSE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 522 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF NEW EFFINGTON
  TO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SISSETON...OR FROM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  HANKINSON TO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SISSETON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  NEW EFFINGTON AROUND 535 PM CDT
  PEEVER AROUND 545 PM CDT
  VICTOR AROUND 550 PM CDT
  BROWNS VALLEY AROUND 555 PM CDT
  WILMOT...YANKEETOWN AROUND 610 PM CDT
  DAKOMIN...BONANZA GROVE AROUND 615 PM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. 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 4595 9699 4576 9708 4554 9724 4533 9698
          4542 9666 4573 9656

TDK

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 Jun 25, 3:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 3:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/N-EAST SD AND W-CENTRAL MN
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
325 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

S/W TROUGH SLIDING ACROSS THE NE PART OF THE CWA THIS EVENING FROM
THE NW COMBINED WITH A SFC COLD FRONT...HIGH INSTABILITY...GOOD
DWPTS AND A WEAKENING CAP WILL BRING SCT TO NUMEROUS TSRAS TO NE SD
AND WC MN. SATELLITE AND RADAR ALREADY SHOWING DEVELOPMENT ALONG
THIS FRONT LATE THIS AFTN. AFTER THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH...MUCH
DRIER AIR WILL MOVE ACROSS THE CWA THROUGH THE NIGHT WITH CLEARING
SKIES. MDLS SHOW SFC HIGH PRESSURE DOMINATING THE WEATHER ACROSS THE
CWA OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS WITH LESS HUMIDITY ALONG WITH COOLER AFTN
AND NIGHTTIME TEMPS. ALSO...NOT MUCH FOR CLOUD COVER OVER THE NEXT
FEW DAYS. MDLS SHOW A SHARP 50H RIDGE BUILDING OVER THE CENTER PART
OF THE COUNTRY THROUGH THURSDAY AND THEN BEING KNOCKED DOWN SOME BY
A S/W THAT PUSHES THROUGH IT. DONT BELIEVE THIS S/W WILL BRING ANY
PRECIP THOUGH. THEREFORE...AFTER THE TSRAS THIS EVENING ACROSS NE SD
AND WC MN THE CWA WILL REMAIN DRY OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS WITH
TEMPS CLOSER TO NORMAL.

.EXTENDED DISCUSSION...

A LARGE UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL REMAIN IN PLACE OVER A
MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY DURING THE EXTENDED PERIOD. THE EXCEPTION
WILL BE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGION...WHERE A TROUGH WILL PUSH
ONTO THE COAST LATE IN THE PERIOD. AT THE SURFACE...THE UPPER
MIDWEST WILL BE SITUATED BETWEEN HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE EASTERN
UNITED STATES...AND LOW PRESSURE OVER THE ROCKIES ON SATURDAY. THE
WEAK LOW PRESSURE WILL SLOWLY PUSH TO THE EAST SUNDAY INTO EARLY
MONDAY...TO A LINE FROM NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA TO NORTHWESTERN
KANSAS BY 12Z TUESDAY. IT APPEARS THE MAJORITY OF THE PRECIPITATION
ASSOCIATED WITH THIS TROUGH WILL OCCUR ALONG AND NORTH OF IT DURING
THIS TIME FRAME. THE TROUGH PUSHES THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE
DAKOTAS ON TUESDAY...WITH ANY PRECIPITATION THEN AFFECTING THE CWA.
THE MRF INDICATES INCREASING INSTABILITY WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE
TROUGH...SO WILL MENTION THE POSSIBILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS.
TEMPERATURES WILL STILL BE FAIRLY WARM DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE
EXTENDED WITH PLENTY OF SUBSIDENCE UNDER THE HIGH. SLIGHTLY COOLER
AIR BEGINS TO MOVE IN BY MONDAY...BUT STILL NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES
EXPECTED BOTH MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

.ABR...NONE

MOHR/PARKIN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 25, 3:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN, SD
340 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

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

0915 PM    5 NE OACOMA               SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/02   LYMAN

0915 PM    5 NE OACOMA               SD   70 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/25/02   LYMAN

0914 PM    5 E LAKE NORDEN           SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/25/02   HAMLIN

0955 PM    CLEAR LAKE                SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/02   DEUEL

MJA

Local storm report, Jun 25, 3:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN, SD
340 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

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

0915 PM    5 NE OACOMA               SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/24/02   LYMAN

0915 PM    5 NE OACOMA               SD   70 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/24/02   LYMAN

0914 PM    5 E LAKE NORDEN           SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/24/02   HAMLIN

0955 PM    CLEAR LAKE                SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/24/02   DEUEL

MJA

Local storm report, Jun 25, 5:07 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN, SD
507 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

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

0350 PM    3 NE BURDETTE             SD   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/25/02   HAND

0358 PM    3 SW TULARE               SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/02   SPINK

0420 PM    2 S CONDE                 SD   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/25/02   SPINK

0455 PM    TURTON                    SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/02   SPINK

0500 PM    2 NE RAYMOND              SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/25/02   CLARK

AP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Big Stone	30 min
Jun 25, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	30 min
Jun 24, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Lyman	66 min
Jun 24, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hamlin	45 min
Jun 24, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Deuel	41 min
Jun 24, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Lyman	31 min
Jun 24, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Deuel	19 min
Jun 25, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand, Spink	47 min
Jun 25, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Clark, Spink	45 min
Jun 25, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Clark	60 min
Jun 25, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Grant	39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2002 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.