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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Aberdeen, SD

April 20, 2007Faulk County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2007, 7:17 PM CDT for Faulk County, South Dakota. It was in force for 28 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 20, 2007, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 2007, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Faulk County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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 20, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	10 hr

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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 20, 7:05 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 20, 7:16 PM CDT, 1 minute before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 20, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk	28 min
Apr 20, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand	29 min
Apr 20, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown, Faulk, Spink	43 min
Apr 20, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand	28 min
Apr 20, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown	28 min
Apr 21, 3:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	ABR	Brown, Buffalo, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel and 16 more	24 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2007 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.