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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 3, 2005Hughes County, Sully County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2005, 12:11 AM CDT for Hughes County, Sully County, South Dakota. It was in force for 19 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
Jul 3, 2005, 12:11 AM CDT (05:11 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2005, 12:30 AM CDT
In force
19 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hughes County, SD, Sully County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:10 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 2, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 2005-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2517 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 2005-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 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
2517 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1720 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.9

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, Corson, Walworth40 min
Jul 2, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell44 min
Jul 2, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRMcPherson26 min
Jul 2, 9:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson53 min
Jul 2, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey70 min
Jul 2, 9:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson79 min
Jul 2, 10:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRStanley41 min
Jul 2, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, Potter, Walworth68 min
Jul 2, 10:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey34 min
Jul 2, 11:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSully52 min
Jul 2, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes, Stanley49 min
Jul 2, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds, Faulk, McPherson74 min
Jul 2, 11:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand, Hyde65 min
Jul 3, 12:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Spink67 min
Jul 3, 12:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds24 min
Jul 3, 1:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark, Day, Marshall40 min
Jul 3, 1:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark, Codington, Hamlin46 min
Jul 3, 1:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDay, Grant, Marshall, Roberts51 min
Jul 3, 2:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDeuel35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.