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Blizzard Warning 2, NWS Aberdeen, SD

November 5, 200821 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this blizzard warning at Nov 5, 2008, 4:48 AM CST for 21 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Nov 5, 2008, 1:03 PM CST. It was in force for 47 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 5, 2008, 4:48 AM CST (10:48 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 5, 2008, 1:03 PM CST
Expired
Nov 7, 2008, 12:00 PM CST
In force
47 hr
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
All 21 counties

Brown County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Clark County, SD, Corson County, SD, Day County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Potter County, SD, Spink County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 222 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2008-11-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2008-11-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 161 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2006 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 5, 6:57 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryABRBrown, Campbell, Clark, Day, Edmunds, Faulk and 5 more3 hr
Nov 5, 1:03 PM CSTBlizzard WatchABRBrown, Clark, Day, Marshall, Spink16 hr

Nearby

Blizzard Warnings in South Dakota, 2008Every blizzard warning in 2008

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.