Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2003, 7:04 PM CDT for Hughes County, Lyman County, South Dakota. It was in force for 41 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 11, 2003, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Hughes County, SD, Lyman County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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 11, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1547 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
329 WFUS53 KABR 120004 TORABR SDC065-085-120045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 703 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HUGHES COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA NORTHERN LYMAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 703 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF CEDAR CREEK REC AREA...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTH OF PRESHO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CEDAR CREEK REC AREA AROUND 715 PM CDT JOE CREEK REC AREA AROUND 730 PM CDT WEST BEND REC AREA AROUND 740 PM CDT THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 4421 10019 4408 10019 4408 9965 4419 9970 $$ PARKIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Sully | 58 min |
| Jun 11, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hughes, Sully | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey, Potter | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Potter | 43 min |
| Jun 11, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hughes | 33 min |
| Jun 11, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Lyman | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Sully | 26 min |
| Jun 11, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Faulk | 66 min |
| Jun 11, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hyde | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Sully | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hughes | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Lyman | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hyde | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Lyman | 13 min |
| Jun 11, 9:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Lyman | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Lyman | 44 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.