Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2003, 7:49 PM CDT for Sully County, South Dakota. It was in force for 26 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, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sully County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 135 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.
589 WFUS53 KABR 120049 TORABR SDC119-120115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 748 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SULLY COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 748 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES EAST OF SUTTON BAY REC AREA...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF ONIDA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... AGAR AROUND 805 PM CDT A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF SUTTON BAY REC 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 4489 10039 4474 10038 4469 9971 4490 9969 $$
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, 7:32 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, 7:54 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 |
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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.