Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2005, 7:30 AM CDT for Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota. It was in force for 61 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, 7:30 AM CDT (12:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2005, 8:31 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Big Stone County, MN, Traverse County, MN
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:30 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 685 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -350 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.7
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, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 3:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 35 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 5:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown | 51 min |
| Jul 23, 6:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Day, Marshall | 44 min |
| Jul 23, 6:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Day, Marshall, Roberts | 62 min |
| Jul 23, 7:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Grant | 55 min |
Nearby
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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.