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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Aug 8, 2007, 5:12 PM CDT for Faulk County, Spink County, South Dakota. It was in force for 33 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2007, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2007, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Faulk County, SD, Spink County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 5:15 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 6 Nw Athol, SD | |
| Aug 8, 5:50 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 2 Ne Athol, SD |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KABR 082212 TORABR SDC049-115-082245- /O.NEW.KABR.TO.W.0021.070808T2212Z-070808T2245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 512 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN FAULK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... WEST CENTRAL SPINK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 509 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF ATHOL...OR 16 MILES EAST OF FAULKTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ATHOL AROUND 535 PM CDT... THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO TAKE SHELTER NOW REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN ABERDEEN. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4512 9881 4502 9889 4486 9868 4509 9848 $$ TDK
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KABR 082234 SVSABR SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 534 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 SDC049-082244- /O.CAN.KABR.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070808T2245Z/ FAULK SD- 534 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR FAULK COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4510 9872 4499 9872 4486 9868 4510 9847 $$ SDC115-082245- /O.CON.KABR.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070808T2245Z/ SPINK SD- 534 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR WEST CENTRAL SPINK COUNTY... AT 533 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ATHOL...OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF REDFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4510 9872 4499 9872 4486 9868 4510 9847 $$ TDK
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, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Hand, Hyde | 66 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
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.