Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 19, 2005Dewey County, Stanley County, Sully County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2005, 8:01 PM MDT for Dewey County, Stanley County, Sully County, South Dakota. It was in force for 59 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 2005, 8:01 PM MDT (02:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2005, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dewey County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 19, 8:20 PM MDTHAIL 0.7510 S Ridgeview, SD
Jul 19, 8:50 PM MDTHAIL 14 N Mission Ridge, SD

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched one storm report to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 49 minutes after it went out.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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 2005-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1994 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 2005-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 142 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1994 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2043 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 6:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes, Stanley, Sully53 min
Jul 19, 7:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, Corson, Dewey, Walworth58 min
Jul 19, 7:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell47 min
Jul 19, 8:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRMcPherson64 min
Jul 19, 8:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell30 min
Jul 19, 9:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRStanley27 min
Jul 19, 9:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes, Sully23 min
Jul 19, 9:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Edmunds, McPherson62 min
Jul 19, 11:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand25 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.