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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 195, NWS Aberdeen, SD

October 29, 2004Sully County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 29, 2004, 9:25 AM CDT for Sully County, South Dakota. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 29, 2004, 9:25 AM CDT (14:25 UTC)
Expired
Oct 29, 2004, 10:15 AM CDT
In force
50 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), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 29, 4:15 AM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 29, 4:15 AM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 29, 5:16 AM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
516 AM CDT FRI OCT 29 2004

MNZ039-046-SDZ006>008-011-018>023-301014-
BIG STONE-BROWN-CLARK-CODINGTON-DAY-DEUEL-GRANT-HAMLIN-MARSHALL-
ROBERTS-SPINK-TRAVERSE-
516 AM CDT FRI OCT 29 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL...NORTH
CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...AS WELL AS BIG STONE
AND TRAVERSE COUNTIES IN MINNESOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

LOOKING FOR WIDESPREAD DENSE FOG TO DISSIPATE BY MIDDAY TODAY.

FLOOD WATCH COVERS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST
CENTRAL MINNESOTA BECAUSE OF STATIONARY WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY WHICH
COULD ACT TO FOCUS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING OF STORMS
ACROSS GROUND THAT IS ALREADY SATURATED FROM THURSDAY MORNING STORMS.

WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA WINDS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT AS
SURFACE LOW PRESSURE CENTER LIFTS INTO THE GREAT LAKES...PRODUCING AN
IMPRESSIVE PRESSURE GRADIENT.

EASTERN HALF OF COUNTY WARNING AREA IS UNDER A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE
WEATHER...POINTING TO WARM FRONT AND APPROACHING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM
AS TWO MAJOR PLAYERS WHICH COULD PRODUCE A FEW LARGE HAIL REPORTS
OVER NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS
AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON ALONG AND SOUTHEAST
OF A LINE FROM REDFIELD TO BRITTON TO WHEATON.

SDZ003>005-009-010-015>017-033>037-045-048-051-301014-
BUFFALO-CAMPBELL-CORSON-DEWEY-EDMUNDS-FAULK-HAND-HUGHES-HYDE-JONES-
LYMAN-MCPHERSON-POTTER-STANLEY-SULLY-WALWORTH-
516 AM CDT FRI OCT 29 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL...NORTH
CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...AS WELL AS BIG STONE
AND TRAVERSE COUNTIES IN MINNESOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

LOOKING FOR WIDESPREAD DENSE FOG TO DISSIPATE BY MIDDAY TODAY.

WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA WINDS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS
SURFACE LOW PRESSURE CENTER LIFTS INTO THE GREAT LAKES...PRODUCING AN
IMPRESSIVE PRESSURE GRADIENT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

DORN/PARKIN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 29, 10:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRPotter, Sully52 min
Oct 29, 10:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRPotter63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.