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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 7, 2007Roberts County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2007, 1:06 PM CDT for Roberts County, South Dakota. It was in force for 24 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
Jun 7, 2007, 1:06 PM CDT (18:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2007, 1:30 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Roberts County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:07 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 7, 1:15 PM CDTHAIL 1.75New Effington, SD
Jun 7, 1:21 PM CDTHAIL 1.75New Effington, SDFUNNEL CLOUD WAS ALSO SPOTTED OVER NEW EFFINGTON

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 7, 11:11 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 157 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2007-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 26 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2007-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -88 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-395 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
842 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KABR 071807
TORABR
SDC109-071830-
/O.NEW.KABR.TO.W.0007.070607T1806Z-070607T1830Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
106 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN ROBERTS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...

* UNTIL 130 PM CDT

* AT 103 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR NEW
  EFFINGTON...OR 12 MILES NORTH OF SISSETON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  NEW EFFINGTON AROUND 115 PM CDT...
  VICTOR AND ROSHOLT AROUND 130 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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

LAT...LON 4584 9704 4576 9689 4586 9665 4594 9694

$$
KEEFE
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KABR 071828
SVSABR

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
128 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007

SDC109-071838-
/O.EXP.KABR.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-070607T1830Z/
ROBERTS SD-
128 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL ROBERTS COUNTY EXPIRES AT
130 PM CDT...

AT 124 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE WEAKENED. THEREFORE...
THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

LAT...LON 4584 9704 4576 9689 4586 9665 4594 9694

$$
DORN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRJones, Stanley29 min
Jun 6, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRJones, Lyman54 min
Jun 6, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey, Potter38 min
Jun 6, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRPotter, Sully44 min
Jun 6, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey25 min
Jun 6, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson, Dewey, Walworth50 min
Jun 6, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, Edmunds, Faulk, Potter, Walworth32 min
Jun 6, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, Corson, Dewey43 min
Jun 6, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, Corson, Walworth39 min
Jun 6, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds, McPherson49 min
Jun 6, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Edmunds, McPherson43 min
Jun 6, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRMcPherson23 min
Jun 6, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDay30 min
Jun 7, 4:15 AM CDTWind AdvisoryABRBrown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 20 more17 hr
Jun 7, 10:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk, Hand, Spink20 min
Jun 7, 12:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDay36 min
Jun 7, 12:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDay, Marshall, Roberts64 min
Jun 7, 12:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRRoberts8 min
Jun 7, 12:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRRoberts59 min
Jun 7, 1:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCodington, Day, Grant, Roberts43 min
Jun 7, 1:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRRoberts19 min
Jun 7, 1:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRRoberts34 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.