Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2007, 5:24 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Hand County, Hyde County, South Dakota. It was in force for 66 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 8, 2007, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2007, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Buffalo County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hyde County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 244 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -248 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 973 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 8, 4:39 PM CDT, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 4:39 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 5:31 AM CDT, 11 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 531 AM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 MNZ039-046-SDZ004>011-016>023-034>037-048-051-091045- TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-BROWN-MARSHALL-ROBERTS- WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DAY-POTTER-FAULK-SPINK-CLARK-CODINGTON-GRANT- HAMLIN-DEUEL-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-HAND-LYMAN-BUFFALO- 531 AM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 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 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS THE DAKOTAS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. AT THIS TIME THERE APPEARS TO BE NO SIGNIFICANT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL THOUGH ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. SDZ003-015-033-045-091045- CORSON-DEWEY-STANLEY-JONES- 531 AM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 /431 AM MDT WED AUG 8 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE MORNING HOURS AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS THE DAKOTAS. AT THIS TIME THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE...BUT LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE WITH STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. AT THIS TIME THERE APPEARS TO BE NO SIGNIFICANT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL THOUGH ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. NJE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Faulk | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Faulk | 54 min |
| Aug 8, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | McPherson | 34 min |
| Aug 8, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Faulk | 38 min |
| Aug 8, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | McPherson | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Faulk, Spink | 33 min |
| Aug 8, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Spink | 57 min |
| Aug 8, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Buffalo | 26 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.