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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Aberdeen, SD

September 5, 2005Edmunds County, Faulk County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 2005, 5:22 PM CDT for Edmunds County, Faulk County, South Dakota. It was in force for 53 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: Sep 5, 2005, 5:22 PM CDT (22:22 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2005, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 72 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1344 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -347 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1364 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Sep 5, 3:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 3:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 5, 12:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Marshall	51 min
Sep 5, 5:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Roberts	60 min
Sep 5, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Edmunds, Faulk, Potter	47 min
Sep 5, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	McPherson	57 min
Sep 5, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown	51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2005 Every 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.