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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 5, 2003Traverse County, Minnesota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2003, 1:35 PM CDT for Traverse County, Minnesota. It was in force for 25 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
Jun 5, 2003, 1:35 PM CDT (18:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2003, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Traverse County, MN

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 2003-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 19 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 2003-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1257 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KABR 051835
SVRABR
MNC155-051900-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
134 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TRAVERSE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 200 PM CDT

* AT 134 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DUMONT...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF
  WHEATON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DUMONT AROUND 150 PM CDT

GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING 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 4579 9653 4563 9641 4572 9617 4589 9629

$$
PARKIN

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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.