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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2006, 7:56 PM CDT for Clark County, Codington County, Hamlin County, South Dakota. It was in force for 64 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, 7:56 PM CDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2006, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Hamlin County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 664 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1931 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.0
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, 3:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 3:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 325 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2006 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL BE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD. 19Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWED AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE WESTERN HIGH PLAINS FROM NORTHERN TEXAS TO WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...WITH A TROUGH EXTENDING FROM IT ACROSS TO NORTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. STORMS ALREADY BEGINNING TO DEVELOP IN THE FAR NORTHWESTERN PART OF THE CWA. AN UPPER RIDGE CURRENTLY OVER THE WESTERN HIGH PLAINS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH FRIDAY...BEFORE IT BEGINS A SLOW PUSH TO THE EAST FRIDAY NIGHT...FINALLY REACHING MINNESOTA BY SUNDAY NIGHT. A TROUGH WILL PUSH ONTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST EARLY IN THE PERIOD...WITH A COUPLE OF SHORTWAVES COMING OFF IT AND TRACKING OVER THE RIDGE AND ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS. AT THE SURFACE...BROAD HIGH PRESSURE CURRENTLY EXTENDS FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE GREAT LAKES...WITH AN ELONGATED TROUGH OVER THE ROCKIES. BEST INSTABILITY TONIGHT WILL BE OVER THE WESTERN CWA. NICE BOUNDARY CAN BE SEEN ON KABR RADAR...AND CURRENT STORMS APPEAR TO BE DEVELOPING ON THIS BOUNDARY. WILL KEEP A CHANCE GOING OVER THE ENTIRE CWA TONIGHT AS THERE ARE LIKELY SUBTLE BOUNDARIES STILL AROUND FROM LAST NIGHTS CONVECTION. THE TROUGH OVER THE ROCKIES WILL PUSH EAST OF THE ROCKIES ON FRIDAY...THEN TO THE WESTERN DAKOTAS FRIDAY NIGHT. CONDITIONS STABILIZE NICELY ON FRIDAY...SO WILL LEAVE THE DAY PERIOD DRY. A 40-50 KT LLJ SETS UP FRIDAY NIGHT OVER THE CWA AND AN UPPER LEVEL JET STREAK BEGINS TO NOSE OVER THE UPPER MIDWEST. INSTABILITY DOES NOT LOOK GREAT...BUT LAPSE RATES OF 7.5-9.0 DEGREES IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE LLJ MAY BE ENOUGH TO SET OFF A FEW STORMS. DECENT HEATING AGAIN ON SATURDAY WILL ALLOW FOR CONDITIONS TO RAPIDLY DESTABILIZE...WITH MODELS INDICATING CAPES AROUND 3000 J/KG AND LI/S AROUND -6 BY AFTERNOON. FRONT MOVES THROUGH PRETTY SLOWLY...AND DOES NOT LOOK TO CLEAR THE REGION UNTIL SUNDAY NIGHT...SO WILL KEEP TSTM CHANCE GOING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING. HIGH PRESSURE BEGINS TO NOSE INTO THE AREA AFTER THAT. NO BIG CHANGES MADE TO TEMPERATURES. TEMPS WILL BE RIGHT AROUND NORMAL ON FRIDAY...THEN DECENT WAA AHEAD OF INCOMING SYSTEM WILL ALLOW FOR ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS SATURDAY...THEN PRETTY GOOD COOLING IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SURFACE HIGH ON SUNDAY. .LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NOT MUCH CHANCE TO THE EXTENDED. THINGS LOOK NEAR TO SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL TEMPWISE FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY...THEN A WARM UP FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY IN RETURN FLOW OUT AHEAD OF COLD FRONT APPROACHING WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. WITH SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE IN PLACE MONDAY AND TUESDAY...KEPT THE FORECAST DRY. PRECIP CHANCES REALLY PICK UP...THOUGH...BY LATE TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY AS GULF MOISTURE OVERTAKES THE NORTHERN PLAINS IN SW FLOW ALOFT. INSERTED SLT CHANCE AND LOW-END CHANCE POPS FROM TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY AS SUCH. && .ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. && PARKIN/DORN
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 5:26 AM CDT, 14 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 526 AM CDT THU AUG 10 2006 MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-111030- TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-BROWN-MARSHALL- ROBERTS-WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DAY-DEWEY-POTTER-FAULK-SPINK-CLARK- CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN-DEUEL-STANLEY-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-HAND-JONES- LYMAN-BUFFALO- 526 AM CDT THU AUG 10 2006 /426 AM MDT THU AUG 10 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR NORTH OF A BOWDLE-WARNER- WEBSTER LINE DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS IS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO PORTIONS OF CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA LATER THIS AFTERNOON. SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES EXIST FROM FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BECOME NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. TT
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Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 10, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand | 48 min |
| Aug 10, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Hyde | 58 min |
| Aug 10, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Jones | 67 min |
| Aug 10, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Day | 31 min |
| Aug 10, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand | 58 min |
| Aug 10, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Lyman | 24 min |
| Aug 10, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Spink | 52 min |
| Aug 10, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Clark | 23 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.