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Freezing Rain Advisory 1, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

December 29, 2005Beadle County, Brookings County, Kingsbury County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this freezing rain advisory at Dec 29, 2005, 9:08 AM CST for Beadle County, Brookings County, Kingsbury County, South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 29, 2005, 9:08 AM CST (15:08 UTC)
Expired
Dec 29, 2005, 3:00 PM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD

Counties Beadle County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:05 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 90 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 12:00Z on 2005-12-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2005-12-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1358 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 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 freezing rain advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freezing rain advisory went out at Dec 29, 3:30 AM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 29, 3:30 AM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
330 AM CST THU DEC 29 2005

.DISCUSSION...
COMPLICATED FCST THE NEXT FEW DAYS. FIRST PBLM IS DENSE FOG MAINLY E
OF JAMES RVR VALLEY. WITH LLM TRAPPED BLO INVERSION AND LOW LEVEL
SELY FLOW DVLPNG...WUD EXPECT DENSE FOG TO STAY AROUND FOR AWHILE
THIS MORN...SO HAVE EXPANDED AND CONTINUED THRU 15Z.

NOW WE MOVE ON TO S/W CURRENTLY OVR THE NRN ROCKIES. MODELS IN FAIR
AGGREEMENT WITH THIS S/W DIGGING ACRS THE NRN PLAINS THIS AFTN AND
TONIGHT WITH SFC LOW TRACKING ACRS SRN SD TODAY AND THIS EVE AND
ALONG THE MN/IA BORDER TONIGHT AND FRI. PRECIP SHUD START AS RAIN
WITH WARM AIR ALOFT AHEAD OF SYS. CONCERN IS WHETHER PRECIP MAY
START OF ZR- ERN CWA. THIS IS PSBL...BUT LOW LEVELS WL WARM INTO MID
TO UPPER 30S FAIRLY QUICKLY ONE LIGHT RAIN STARTS...SO DO NOT EXPECT
MUCH ZR-. STG HGT FALLS WITH S/W AND WUD EXPECT RAIN TO CHANGE OVER
TO SNOW FAIRLY QUICKLY FM WEST TO E TONIGHT...WITH BEST LIFT N OF
I90 AND BEST CHC OF ACCUM SNOW NE OF A HON-OTG LINE TONIGHT INTO SAT
MORN. SYS IS MOVG QUICKLY BUT A SWAT OF 4 INCHES IS QUITE LIKELY IN
THIS AREA. SO HAVE GONE WITH A SNOW ADVY FOR THESE AREAS. WINDS SHUD
PICK UP ACRS THE W AND S AS SFC LOW DEEPENS. WL NOT GO WITH ANY WND
ADVY ATTM BUT SWRN CWA CUD COME CLOSE LATER TONIGHT.

UPPER LOW WL MOVE INTO WRN GREAT LAKES REGION BY FRI EVE...SO WUD
EXPECT PLENTY OF CLDS AND A CHC OF LIGHT SNOW ACRS CWA ON FRI.
FAIRLY COLD AIR WL FUNNEL INTO CWA FRI AND HAVE LOWERED MAX TEMPS
ACRS CWA.

SHUD BE FAIRLY QUITE ON SAT WITH TEMPS STILL ABOVE NORM...BUT WL
SHADE BACK A FEW DEG AS LOW LEVEL SELY FLOW DEVELOPS. WL NOT CHANGE
LATER PDS TOO MUCH...BUT WL SPEED UP CHC OF PRECIP ON TUES. WL KEEP
CHC OF PRECIP SUN AS DECENT S/W MOVES ACRS THE PLAINS. AIRMASS MAY
BE WARM ENUF FOR A MIC OF LIGHT RAIN OR LIGHT SNOW...BEFORE CHANGING
OVR TO SNOW IN THE EVE. ACTIVE WX PATTERN WITH WLYS INTO NEXT
WEEK...BUT TEMPS WL STILL REMAIN ABOVE NORM.

&&

.FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IA...DENSE FOG ADVISORY UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING FOR
     IAZ001-IAZ002-IAZ003-IAZ012-IAZ013-IAZ020-IAZ031.
MN...DENSE FOG ADVISORY UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING FOR
     MNZ071-MNZ072-MNZ080-MNZ081-MNZ089-MNZ090-MNZ097-MNZ098.
     SNOW ADVISORY FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM CST FRIDAY FOR
     MNZ071-MNZ072-MNZ080-MNZ081.
NE...DENSE FOG ADVISORY UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING FOR
     NEZ013-NEZ014.
SD...DENSE FOG ADVISORY UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING FOR
     SDZ040-SDZ055-
     SDZ056-SDZ061-SDZ062-SDZ066-SDZ067-SDZ069-SDZ070-SDZ071.
     SNOW ADVISORY FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 AM CST FRIDAY
     FOR SDZ038-SDZ039-SDZ040.

&&
Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 29, 4:14 AM CST, 4 hours 54 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 28, 6:31 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryFSDBeadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Clay, Davison, Hanson and 12 more14 hr
Dec 29, 3:57 AM CSTSnow AdvisoryFSDBeadle, Brookings, Kingsbury12 hr
Dec 29, 3:52 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryFSDBrookings, Kingsbury, Lake, Miner, Moody20 hr

Nearby

Freezing Rain Advisories in South Dakota, 2005Every freezing rain advisory 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.