Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2003

Tornado Warning 27, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 24, 2003Codington County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2003, 9:37 PM CDT for Codington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 38 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 24, 2003, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Codington County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 24, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 99 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 00:00Z on 2003-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 728 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 00:00Z on 2003-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 249 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KABR 250237
TORABR
SDC029-250315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
936 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 936 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF
  SANDY SHORE STATE PARK...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF WATERTOWN...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  SANDY SHORE STATE PARK AROUND 950 PM CDT
  WATERTOWN AROUND 1000 PM CDT
  RAUVILLE...WAVERLY AROUND 1015 PM CDT

A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A WALL CLOUD WITH NUMEROUS 
FUNNELS IN NORTHERN HAMLIN COUNTY.

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 4481 9737 4480 9705 4499 9688 4516 9703

$$
HARDING

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes, Hyde42 min
Jun 24, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHyde37 min
Jun 24, 7:25 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDay, Marshall50 min
Jun 24, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCodington45 min
Jun 24, 7:49 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBuffalo, Hand26 min
Jun 24, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningABRMarshall, Roberts35 min
Jun 24, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHand30 min
Jun 24, 8:26 PM CDTTornado WarningABRClark, Hamlin49 min
Jun 24, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark60 min
Jun 24, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHamlin49 min
Jun 24, 9:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningABRBrown115 min
Jun 24, 9:24 PM CDTTornado WarningABRClark51 min
Jun 24, 9:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningABRClark, Codington, Hamlin3 hr
Jun 24, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRLyman40 min
Jun 24, 11:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningABRDay, Marshall, Roberts6 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, 2003Every tornado warning in 2003Tornadoes in 2003

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.