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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 2008, 10:10 PM CDT for Hughes County, Stanley County, South Dakota. It was in force for 7 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
- Jun 2, 2008, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2008, 4:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Hughes County, SD, Stanley County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 193 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 1085 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1211 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 2, 3:25 PM CDT, 6 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:25 PM CDT, 6 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 325 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2008 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT STORMS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ACROSS WESTERN SD LATE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG A SURFACE BOUNDARY EXTENDING INTO THIS AREA. WITH SUNSHINE THIS AFTERNOON AND DECENT DEWPOINTS ACROSS THE AREA...INSTABILITY HAS INCREASED THIS AFTERNOON MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDING ACROSS CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA INTO WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. WITH A SHORT WAVE TROUGH COMING ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT ALONG WITH A JET STREAK NOSING OVER THE REGION TONIGHT...EXPECT TSRAS TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AS THEY MOVE EAST THROUGH THE NIGHT. A PROBLEM FOR THE NORTHEAST CWA WILL BE THE DRIER AND MORE STABLE AIR COMING AROUND THE SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE AREA IN SOUTHERN CANADA. SOME MODELS HAVE A CUTOFF IN THE QPF ACROSS THE FAR NORTHEAST CWA WHILE SOME PUSH MORE QPF INTO THIS AREA. KEPT WITH THE LIKELY POPS ACROSS THE CWA TONIGHT AND MAY HAVE TO DROP THEM SOME ACROSS THE NORTHEAST CWA LATER. AFTER THIS TROUGH MOVES THROUGH...ANOTHER STRONGER CLOSED UPPER LOW FROM THE WEST MOVES ACROSS MT AND ND LATER TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. AFTER TONIGHTS RAINFALL MOVES THROUGH...EXPECT SOME LOW CLOUDS TO FORM AND THEN BREAK UP QUITE A BIT ON TUESDAY WITH MORE DESTABILIZATION TAKING PLACE IN ADVANCE OF NEXT TROUGH. THUS...CONTINUED WITH CHANCES OF TSRAS FOR TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY NIGHT. THEN ALL OF THE MODELS AND ENSEMBLES CONTINUE TO SHOW A SIGNIFICANT UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND SURFACE LOW PRESSURE AREA DEVELOPING OUT WEST AND MOVING INTO THE CENTRAL PART OF THE US WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WITH THIS UNUSUALLY STRONG SYSTEM FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR ALOFT AND AT THE SURFACE...HAVE IN GOOD CHANCES OF SHRAS/TSRAS FOR WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE BEST BET FOR SEVERE WEATHER STILL APPEARS TO THE EAST OF OUR CWA. .LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE CHALLENGE FOR THE EXTENDED DEALS WITH PRECIPITATION CHANCES...ESPECIALLY EARLY IN THE PERIOD. BOTH THE GFS/ECMWF ARE IN A FAIR AGREEMENT WITH AN INTENSE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD. STRONG LOW LEVEL JET...GOOD MOISTURE ADVECTION AND SHEAR ARE ALL LOCATED OUT AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM. AT THIS TIME THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL LOOKS TO BE SOUTH AND EAST OF THE CWA. CLOSER TO HOME...BOTH MODELS INDICATE WRAP AROUND SHOWERS AND CAA INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS. EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY TO GIVE WAY TO SHOWERS ON FRIDAY. ONCE THIS SYSTEM DEPARTS...THE FLOW PATTERN BECOMES MORE ZONAL ALLOWING FOR DRY CONDITIONS AND MODERATE TEMPERATURES. A SIMILAR STORM SYSTEM LOOKS IMPACT THE REGION...AGAIN...AT THE END OF THE WEEKEND. TEMPERATURES WILL BE BELOW NORMAL AT THE START OF THE EXTENDED...AND NEAR NORMAL BY THIS WEEKEND. && .AVIATION... SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE WESTERN DAKOTAS PER WSR-88D. EXPECT THESE STORMS TO CONTINUE TO TRACK TO THE EAST...AFFECTING KPIR AND KMBG EARLY THIS EVENING AND KABR AND KATY BY THIS EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORM MAY BECOME SEVERE. BEHIND THIS STORM SYSTEM...IFR CIGS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AT KMBG AND KPIR DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. && .ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. && SHORT TERM...MOHR LONG TERM...SD AVIATION...SD WEATHER.GOV/ABERDEEN
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 8:33 AM CDT, 13 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 833 AM CDT MON JUN 2 2008 MNZ046-SDZ003>006-008>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-031345- BIG STONE-CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-BROWN-ROBERTS-WALWORTH- EDMUNDS-DAY-DEWEY-POTTER-FAULK-SPINK-CLARK-CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN- DEUEL-STANLEY-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-HAND-JONES-LYMAN-BUFFALO- 833 AM CDT MON JUN 2 2008 /733 AM MDT MON JUN 2 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...WHERE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS CURRENTLY THOUGHT TO BE LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MNZ039-SDZ007-031345- TRAVERSE-MARSHALL- 833 AM CDT MON JUN 2 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. DORN/MOHR
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Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Stanley | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Stanley, Sully | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Sully | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Jones | 42 min |
| Jun 2, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Hyde | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Lyman | 36 min |
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Flash Flood Warnings in South Dakota, 2008Every flash flood 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.