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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 2007, 8:25 PM CDT for Hamlin County, South Dakota. It was in force for 47 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
- Apr 21, 2007, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2007, 9:12 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hamlin County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 1323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 965 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
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 Apr 21, 3:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 3:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 356 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2007 SDZ003-015-222100- CORSON-DEWEY- 256 PM MDT SAT APR 21 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. A FEW STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL BEING THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. SDZ005>008-010-011-016>019-033>037-045-048-051-222100- MCPHERSON-BROWN-MARSHALL-ROBERTS-EDMUNDS-DAY-POTTER-FAULK-SPINK- CLARK-STANLEY-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-HAND-JONES-LYMAN-BUFFALO- 356 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2007 /256 PM MDT SAT APR 21 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP ARE LIKELY TO BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AGAIN ON SUNDAY. A FEW OF THEM MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. MNZ039-046-222100- TRAVERSE-BIG STONE- 356 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AGAIN ON SUNDAY. A FEW OF THEM MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. SDZ004-009-020>023-222100- CAMPBELL-WALWORTH-CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN-DEUEL- 356 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP ARE LIKELY TO BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AGAIN ON SUNDAY. A FEW OF THEM MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. PARKIN
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 21, 8:02 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Clark, Codington | 41 min |
| Apr 21, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Codington, Grant | 41 min |
| Apr 21, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Deuel, Grant | 42 min |
| Apr 21, 9:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Codington, Grant, Hamlin | 3 hr |
| Apr 21, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Deuel, Hamlin | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 12:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Codington, Hamlin | 3 hr |
| Apr 21, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Big Stone | 37 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007
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.