Alert archive / South Dakota / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 2003, 9:20 PM CDT for Brown County, South Dakota. It was in force for 115 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 2003, 9:20 PM CDT (02:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2003, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:22 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 728 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 552 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KABR 250221 FFWABR SDC013-250415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 920 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BROWN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 920 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING OVER THE WARNED AREA. AT 920 PM CDT...BROWN COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTED WATER OVERTOPPING THE ROAD ALONG BROWN COUNTY 14 NORTH OF BROWN COUNTY 11. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. NEARLY HALF OF ALL FLOOD FATALITIES ARE VEHICLE RELATED. $$ KEARNS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Hyde | 42 min |
| Jun 24, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hyde | 37 min |
| Jun 24, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Day, Marshall | 50 min |
| Jun 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Codington | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Hand | 26 min |
| Jun 24, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Marshall, Roberts | 35 min |
| Jun 24, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hand | 30 min |
| Jun 24, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Clark, Hamlin | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Clark | 60 min |
| Jun 24, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hamlin | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Clark | 51 min |
| Jun 24, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Codington | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 9:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Clark, Codington, Hamlin | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Lyman | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 11:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Day, Marshall, Roberts | 6 hr |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.