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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 7, 2002Marshall County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2002, 5:15 PM CDT for Marshall County, South Dakota. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 2002, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2002, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Marshall County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 12:00Z on 2002-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 441 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 12:00Z on 2002-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
441 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1051 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KABR 072215
TORABR
SDC091-072245-
/NEW.KABR.TO.W.0016.072214-072245/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
514 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 514 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES EAST OF
  KIDDER...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF BRITTON...MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  HILLHEAD AROUND 540 PM CDT

A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED

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 4594 9779 4584 9774 4581 9730 4595 9728

HARDING

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes, Hyde38 min
Jul 7, 4:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningABRHughes, Hyde3 hr
Jul 7, 4:39 PM CDTTornado WarningABRMarshall36 min
Jul 7, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Lyman42 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.