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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 23, 2005Brown County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2005, 5:40 AM CDT for Brown County, South Dakota. It was in force for 51 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 23, 2005, 5:40 AM CDT (10:40 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 2005, 6:31 AM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Brown County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 77 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 2005-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2151 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 2005-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 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
2151 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1311 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
4.2

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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 Jul 23, 3:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 3:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
355 AM CDT SAT JUL 23 2005

.SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT
STRONG CONVECTION GOING EARLY THIS MRNG IN SC ND ON THE NOSE OF THE
LLJ WITH VERY WARM MID LEVEL TEMPS. ALSO...SOME CONVECTION IN NC SD.
EXPECT THIS CONVECTION TO CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST THROUGH THE MORNING
HOURS. OTHERWISE...IT SHOULD BE A HOT DAY ACROSS THE CWA AS VERY
WARM LL TEMPS ADVECT INTO THE AREA FROM THE SW. WITH DWPTS IN THE
LOW TO MID 70S AND TEMPS WARMING UP...HEAT INDICES SHOULD REACH 105
OR GREATER THIS AFTN AND EARLY EVENING IN C AND NE SD AND WC MN. THE
DWPTS WILL BE FALLING THIS AFTN IN C SD AS WINDS BECOME SW AND W BUT
THE TEMPS WILL CONTINUE TO RISE TO AROUND 105. THUS...WILL GO WITH A
HEAT ADVISORY FOR MUCH OF THE CWA FOR THIS AFTN AND EARLY EVENING.
IT SHOULD BE LESS HUMID AND COOLER ON SUNDAY WITH THE AREA STILL
CAPPED FOR CONVECTION. THE MDLS AGREE REALLY WELL THAT A S/W WILL BE
AFFECTING THE CWA SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT WITH A DECENT
COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH. THE MDLS ALSO SHOW THE MID LEVELS COOLING
OFF ALONG WITH SOME QPF FOR SUN NIGHT THROUGH MON NIGHT. STAYED WITH
THE 30 POPS FOR TSRAS ACROSS THE CWA FOR THIS TIME PERIOD WITH 40
POPS ALONG THE S CWA. MONDAY SHOULD AGAIN BE COOLER THAN SUNDAY WITH
HIGHS MOSTLY IN THE 80S.

.LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY
MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT FOR THE START OF EXTENDED PERIOD. SURFACE
HIGH PRESSURE AND DRIER AIRMASS LOOK TO BUILD INTO THE REGION IN
THE WAKE OF DEPARTING SHORT WAVE TROUGH. COLD AIR ADVECTION WILL
KEEP TEMPERATURES BELOW NORMAL FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AS H85
TEMPERATURES FALL TO THE LOW TO MID TEENS CELSIUS. CWA REMAINS UNDER
ZONAL FLOW THROUGH THE REST OF THE EXTENDED WITH LOW LEVEL RETURN
FLOW AND WARM AIR ADVECTION BEGINNING WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY
IN RESPONSE TO NEXT APPROACHING SHORT WAVE. UNCERTAINTY LIES IN THE
TIMING OF THIS NEXT TROUGH FEATURE HOWEVER. GFS IN FAIR AGREEMENT
WITH ECMWF IN BRINGING SURFACE TROUGH THROUGH FORECAST AREA ON
FRIDAY...WHILE DGEX BRINGS IT THROUGH ON THURSDAY. WITH H7 TEMPS OF
+10 TO +12C IN PLACE OVER CWA AND LOW CONFIDENCE IN THE TIMING OF
THE SYSTEM...DECIDED TO LEAVE EXTENDED GRIDS DRY AT THIS TIME.

&&
.ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...HEAT ADVISORY...NOON THROUGH 7 PM CDT...C AND NE SD
MN...HEAT ADVISORY...NOON THROUGH 7 PM CDT...BIG STONE AND TRAVERSE.
&&

MOHR/LILES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 6:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDay, Marshall44 min
Jul 23, 6:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDay, Marshall, Roberts62 min
Jul 23, 7:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRGrant55 min
Jul 23, 7:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBig Stone, Traverse61 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.