Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 571
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 8, 2007, 3:56 PM CDT for 23 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2007, 3:56 PM CDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2007, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 23 counties
Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Brown County, SD, Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Davison County, SD, Day County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Spink County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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 SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 5:24 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 |
| Aug 8, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brule, Jerauld | 37 min |
| Aug 8, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Clark, Codington, Hamlin | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle | 41 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 7:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Corson, Dewey, Perkins, Ziebach | 95 min |
| Aug 8, 2:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brown, Brule, Buffalo and 23 more | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 6:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brown, Brule, Buffalo and 21 more | 58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.