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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2006, 4:04 AM CDT for McPherson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 26 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
- Aug 10, 2006, 4:04 AM CDT (09:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2006, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McPherson County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 2927 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
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 Aug 10, 3:38 AM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 3:38 AM CDT, 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 338 AM CDT THU AUG 10 2006 .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT CONVECTION ONGOING THIS MORNING ALONG THE ND/SD BORDER IN ASSOCIATION WITH WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY. THIS ACTIVITY IS SLOWLY SAGGING SOUTH AND WILL AFFECT MCPHERSON AND NORTHERN BROWN COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. DO NOT EXPECT CONVECTION TO LAST DEEP INTO THE MORNING HOURS AS OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM PREVIOUS CONVECTION HAS STABILIZED ATMOSPHERE. WILL SEE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ONCE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AS SHORT WAVE CURRENTLY LOCATED OVER MT MOVES SE INTO THE DAKOTAS. SVR PARAMETERS LOOK GOOD ACROSS CENTRAL SD THIS AFTERNOON AND HAVE INCLUDED POSSIBLE SEVERE IN GRIDS/ZONE WORDING. HI RES NAM HAS DONE FAIRLY WELL NAILING DOWN CONVECTION PAST COUPLE NIGHTS AND FOR THIS AFTERNOON...IT SHOWS CONVECTION BEGINNING SOMEWHERE ACROSS NW SD/SW ND AND MOVES ACTIVITY SE TOWARDS CENTRAL SD. PATTERN ACTUALLY LOOKS FAIRLY ACTIVE THROUGH THE SHORT TERM WITH SEVERAL WAVES MOVING ACROSS THE AREA. NEXT WAVE OF SIGNIFICANCE MOVES THROUGH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. HAVE INCREASED POPS ACROSS THE WESTERN COUNTIES FOR FRIDAY NIGHT. TEMPERATURES WERE COOLED JUST A COUPLE DEGREES...MAINLY ACROSS THE SW COUNTIES. THINKING THAT SLIGHTLY INCREASED CLOUD COVER ASSOCIATED WITH SHORTWAVES WILL KEEP TEMPS DOWN A TAD. .LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY MAIN FCST CHALLENGE IN THE EXTENDED DEALS WITH PCPN CHANCES EARLY...THEN LATE IN THE EXTENDED. MODELS ARE BEGINNING TO SHOW A RATHER UNSETTLED PATTERN TAKING SHAPE...WITH TROUGHING IN THE WEST WITH SW FLOW ALOFT SETTING UP OVER THE CWA. GULF BEGINS TO OPEN UP ALLOWING AMPLE MOISTURE TO FINALLY FLOW NORTHWARD. THE 00Z GFS SFC SOLN AT 12Z SUNDAY SHOWS FRONTAL BOUNDARY PARALLEL TO 5H FLOW...WHICH MATCHES THE 00Z CANADIAN SOLN AS WELL. THE 00Z NAM SOLN HAS A MORE PERPENDICULAR FLOW. GIVEN DIGGING NW SYSTEM...AM MORE INCLINED TO BUY INTO THE GFS SOLN. RESULT IS BETTER TSRA CHANCES DURING THE DAY SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT AS FROPA PASSES THRU. ALSO UPPED DWPTS A BIT MORE DURING THE DAY SUNDAY. DRY AND COOL WEATHER PREVAILS THEN FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES THROUGH. HEIGHTS BEGIN TO REBOUND A BIT MORE BY WEDNESDAY WITH SW FLOW REGIME TAKING SHAPE AGAIN. IF THIS PATTERN REMAINS...MAY HAVE TO ADD TSRA CHANCES TO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON PERIOD WITH NEXT WAVE EJECTING OUT OF BASE OF TROF AND INTO CWA. TEMP WISE...CURRENT GRIDS HAVE DECENT HANDLE ON THINGS. DID NUDGE TEMPS DOWN JUST A TAD FOR SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY GIVEN CAA PATTERN BEHIND EXITING FRONT. && .ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. && TT/DH
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 9:55 AM CDT, 18 hours 9 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 955 AM CDT WED AUG 9 2006 SDZ003>005-009-010-015>017-034-036-037-051-101500- CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DEWEY-POTTER-FAULK- SULLY-HYDE-HAND-BUFFALO- 955 AM CDT WED AUG 9 2006 /855 AM MDT WED AUG 9 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED AFTER 4PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. SDZ033-035-045-048-101500- STANLEY-HUGHES-JONES-LYMAN- 955 AM CDT WED AUG 9 2006 /855 AM MDT WED AUG 9 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER INDEX WILL BE IN THE VERY HIGH CATEGORY THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED AFTER 4PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. MNZ039-046-SDZ006>008-011-018>023-101500- TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-BROWN-MARSHALL-ROBERTS-DAY-SPINK-CLARK- CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN-DEUEL- 955 AM CDT WED AUG 9 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP LATER THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...WITH SOME OF THE STORMS POSSIBLY BECOMING SEVERE. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THE STORMS ARE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...AS WELL AS FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED AFTER 7PM CDT THIS EVENING. KNUTSVIG/HINTZ
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 9, 10:09 PM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
1009 PM CDT WED AUG 09 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0855 PM HAIL 1 S PRESHO 43.89N 100.06W
08/09/2006 E1.75 INCH LYMAN SD LAW ENFORCEMENT
TRUCKS BLOWN OVER ON INTERSTATE 90 JUST SOUTH OF PRESHO.
0905 PM HAIL 10 NE HOSMER 45.68N 99.33W
08/09/2006 E1.75 INCH MCPHERSON SD EMERGENCY MNGR
&&
NWSLocal storm report, Aug 9, 11:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | McPherson | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Lyman | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, McPherson | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | McPherson | 30 min |
| Aug 9, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | McPherson | 31 min |
| Aug 9, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Faulk | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Faulk | 27 min |
| Aug 9, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Marshall | 51 min |
| Aug 9, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Faulk | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Day, Marshall | 60 min |
| Aug 10, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Clark, Codington | 26 min |
| Aug 10, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | McPherson | 61 min |
| Aug 10, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Corson | 30 min |
| Aug 10, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Corson | 46 min |
| Aug 10, 4:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Corson | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Potter | 33 min |
| Aug 10, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 43 min |
| Aug 10, 5:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Dewey | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Potter, Sully | 43 min |
| Aug 10, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Walworth | 20 min |
| Aug 10, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 28 min |
| Aug 10, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Sully | 45 min |
| Aug 10, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Marshall | 57 min |
| Aug 10, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Day | 55 min |
| Aug 10, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hyde | 38 min |
| Aug 10, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.