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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2008, 2:57 PM CDT for Campbell County, South Dakota. It was in force for 14 min. 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 11, 2008, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2008, 3:11 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Campbell County, SD
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 11, 10:23 AM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 10:23 AM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 1023 AM CDT WED JUN 11 2008 .UPDATE... UPDATED THE FORECAST THIS MORNING...MAINLY TO REMOVE THE MENTION OF THE FLOOD WATCH. AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA WILL MOVE ENE TODAY. SPC HAS MARSHALL...DAY...CLARK AND POINTS EAST UNDER A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER. EXPECT THE CURRENT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO PUSH EAST INTO MINNESOTA WITH SOME REDEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON. ELSEWHERE...EXPECT SHOWERS WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS FOR REST OF THE DAY. UPDATED AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW. && .PREV DISCUSSION... .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY ONGOING SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING...WITH THE POSSIBILITY FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. FIRST...WILL ADDRESS FLOOD RISK AS RADAR ESTIMATED 2-4 FOR PARTS OF CORSON AND CAMPBELL COUNTIES ECLIPSING 1.5 FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE...HOWEVER NO REPORTS OF FLOODING FROM THAT AREA. LOW LEVEL JET EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA WELL INTO THE AM HOURS...THEREFORE WILL CONTINUE FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHERN TIER COUNTIES. ASIDE FROM NORTHERN TIER STORMS...CONVECTION FILLING IN FROM NORTHERN NE INTO EAST CENTRAL SD. THIS IS IN LINE WITH MOST GUIDANCE...INDICATING ELEVATED CAPE/LI VALUES SUPPORTIVE OF CONTINUOUS REDEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE MORNING...AND HODOGRAPHS TO SUPPORT SEVERE THREAT. SURFACE TROUGH WILL PUSH SEVERE THREAT EAST INTO THE PM HOURS. WILL LEAVE OUT MENTION OF POPS AS UPPER TROUGH MOVES OVERHEAD TONIGHT...HOWEVER WITH COOLER TEMPERATURES ALOFT...COULD SEE SHOWER/WEAK THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THURSDAY DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. .LONG TERM...FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE EXTENDED PERIOD STARTS OFF WITH BOTH AN UPPER LOW AND SURFACE LOW OVER SOUTHERN CANADA AND THE FAR NORTHERN PLAINS. A SURFACE HIGH WILL EXTEND FROM THE CENTRAL ROCKIES EASTWARD ACROSS NEBRASKA AND KANSAS. THE HIGH DROPS SOUTHWARD DURING THE DAY FRIDAY WITH A WEAK FRONT TRACKING ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. BEST CHANCE FOR PRECIPITATION LOOKS TO BE DURING THE AFTERNOON AS THE UPPER LEVEL ENERGY SLIDES NORTH OF THE AREA OVERNIGHT. UPPER LEVEL NORTHWEST FLOW SETS UP ON SATURDAY...WITH WEAK SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE SLIDING ACROSS THE PLAINS DURING THE DAY...FOLLOWED BY A DECENT FRONTAL BOUNDARY SATURDAY NIGHT. BEST INSTABILITY DEVELOPS OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CWA SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...SO WILL KEEP A MENTION OF TRW GOING DURING THAT TIME. A DECENT SHORTWAVE DROPS OVER THE EASTERN PART OF THE AREA ON SUNDAY...AND WITH THE FRONT STILL IN THE GENERAL AREA...WILL KEEP A SMALL POP FOR TRW GOING. HIGH PRESSURE SLIDES OVER THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS SUNDAY NIGHT...AND REMAINS DOMINANT OVER THE REGION THROUGH THE END OF THE PERIOD. DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. H85 TEMPS GENERALLY REMAIN IN THE UPPER SINGLE DIGITS TO THE TEENS...KEEPING TEMPERATURES RIGHT AROUND NORMAL THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .AVIATION... IFR/MVFR CIGS/VSBYS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA THROUGH TODAY WITH THE MOST CONCENTRATION OF RAIN/THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY TO BE OVER THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE AREA...INCLUDING KATY TERMINAL. THE STORMS SHOULD GRADUALLY PUSH OFF INTO AREAS NORTH AND EAST OF THE REGION TONIGHT. && .ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. && UPDATE...SD SHORT TERM...CONNELLY LONG TERM...PARKIN AVIATION...TDK WEATHER.GOV/ABERDEEN
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 3:46 AM CDT, 11 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 346 AM CDT WED JUN 11 2008 SDZ003>007-009>011-015>017-120900- CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-BROWN-MARSHALL-WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DAY- DEWEY-POTTER-FAULK- 346 AM CDT WED JUN 11 2008 /246 AM MDT WED JUN 11 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. THE RAIN THREAT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS...WHICH MAY LEAD TO FLOODING IN SOME AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS THURSDAY...FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY. MNZ039-046-SDZ008-018>023-033>037-045-048-051-120900- TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-ROBERTS-SPINK-CLARK-CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN- DEUEL-STANLEY-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-HAND-JONES-LYMAN-BUFFALO- 346 AM CDT WED JUN 11 2008 /246 AM MDT WED JUN 11 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS THURSDAY...FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY. PARKIN
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 11, 10:21 AM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
1021 AM CDT WED JUN 11 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1030 PM HAIL 15 ESE MOUND CITY 45.64N 99.78W
06/10/2008 E1.00 INCH CAMPBELL SD PUBLIC
DIME TO QUARTER HAIL. ALSO ESTIMATED 50 TO 60 MPH WINDS.
0115 AM TSTM WND GST 15 ESE MOUND CITY 45.64N 99.78W
06/11/2008 E60.00 MPH CAMPBELL SD PUBLIC
ESTIMATED WINDS AT LEAST 60 MPH. COTTONWOOD TREE SNAPPED
OFF AT GROUND.
&&
JJZLocal storm report, Jun 11, 11:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Corson | 36 min |
| Jun 10, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | McPherson | 29 min |
| Jun 10, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Corson | 43 min |
| Jun 10, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, McPherson, Walworth | 56 min |
| Jun 10, 10:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABR | Campbell, Corson, Dewey | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Corson | 58 min |
| Jun 10, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Corson, Walworth | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Edmunds, McPherson, Walworth | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Corson, Dewey, McPherson, Walworth | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 1:36 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABR | Campbell, Edmunds, McPherson, Walworth | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, McPherson | 66 min |
| Jun 11, 2:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Edmunds, McPherson, Walworth | 36 min |
| Jun 11, 2:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, McPherson | 57 min |
| Jun 11, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Edmunds, McPherson | 82 min |
| Jun 11, 2:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, McPherson | 28 min |
| Jun 11, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Spink | 31 min |
| Jun 11, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Day, Marshall, Spink | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 3:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson, Potter | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Faulk, Hand, Spink | 66 min |
| Jun 11, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Day, Marshall | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 4:27 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABR | Brown, Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson, Potter | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 5:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Day, Marshall, Roberts | 53 min |
| Jun 11, 5:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Clark, Spink | 23 min |
| Jun 11, 6:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Marshall, Roberts | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 9:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Grant, Roberts | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 1:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ABR | Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 11, 3:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ABR | Grant, Roberts | 12 hr |
| Jun 11, 10:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Big Stone | 5 hr |
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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.