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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 12, 2008Codington County, Deuel County, Hamlin County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2008, 7:50 PM CDT for Codington County, Deuel County, Hamlin County, South Dakota. It was in force for 25 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 12, 2008, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2008, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Codington County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Hamlin County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 12, 3:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 110 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 00:00Z on 2008-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 48 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2008-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 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
48 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2014 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 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
Jun 12, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCodington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin19 min
Jun 13, 8:28 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningABRGrant, Roberts12 hr

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.