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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 11, 2003Potter County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2003, 7:32 PM CDT for Potter County, South Dakota. It was in force for 43 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, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Potter County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KABR 120032
TORABR
SDC107-120115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
732 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  POTTER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 732 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF WHITLOCKS BAY REC AREA...OR ABOUT 22 MILES WEST OF
  GETTYSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  WHITLOCKS BAY REC AREA AROUND 740 PM CDT
  GORMAN AROUND 750 PM CDT
  GETTYSBURG AROUND 800 PM CDT
  LEBANON AROUND 815 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 4512 10027 4490 10041 4491 9966 4519 9973

$$
HARDING

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, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Hughes, Lyman	41 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, 7:42 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.