Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2003, 8:16 PM CDT for Grant County, Roberts County, South Dakota. It was in force for 44 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 23, 2003, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Grant County, SD, Roberts County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 23, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 1534 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 407 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
736 WFUS53 KABR 240116 TORABR SDC051-109-240200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 815 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GRANT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA ROBERTS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 815 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARVIN...OR ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF MILBANK...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MARVIN AROUND 820 PM CDT WILMOT AROUND 830 PM CDT CORONA AROUND 835 PM CDT A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO WITH THIS STORM AT 750 PM CDT. 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 4542 9709 4525 9701 4528 9665 4554 9681 $$ HARDING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Day, Roberts | 67 min |
| Jun 23, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Day, Grant, Roberts | 28 min |
| Jun 24, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Day | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Buffalo | 48 min |
| Jun 24, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand, Hyde | 61 min |
| Jun 24, 4:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Day, Roberts | 35 min |
| Jun 24, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Grant, Roberts | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Day | 33 min |
| Jun 24, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Day | 36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.