Alert archive / South Dakota / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this wind advisory at Feb 17, 2008, 2:17 PM CST for 26 counties in South Dakota; Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 17, 2008, 2:17 PM CST (20:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2008, 7:38 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
All 28 counties
Big Stone County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Brown County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Corson County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin 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, Roberts County, SD, Spink County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KABR 172017 NPWABR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 217 PM CST SUN FEB 17 2008 ...NORTHWEST WINDS BECOMING QUITE STRONG... .THE PRESSURE GRADIENT CONTINUES TO TIGHTEN ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA...RESULTING IN RATHER STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL PERSIST WELL INTO TONIGHT BEFORE WEAKENING. MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-180430- /O.NEW.KABR.WI.Y.0002.080217T2017Z-080218T0900Z/ TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-BROWN-MARSHALL- ROBERTS-WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DAY-DEWEY-POTTER-FAULK-SPINK-CLARK- CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN-DEUEL-STANLEY-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-HAND-JONES- LYMAN-BUFFALO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WHEATON...ORTONVILLE...MCLAUGHLIN... HERREID...EUREKA...ABERDEEN...BRITTON...SISSETON...MOBRIDGE... IPSWICH...WEBSTER...TIMBER LAKE...GETTYSBURG...FAULKTON... REDFIELD...CLARK...WATERTOWN...MILBANK...CASTLEWOOD... CLEAR LAKE...FORT PIERRE...ONIDA...PIERRE...HIGHMORE...MILLER... MURDO...PRESHO...FORT THOMPSON 217 PM CST SUN FEB 17 2008 /117 PM MST SUN FEB 17 2008/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CST /2 AM MST/ MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CST /2 AM MST/ MONDAY. NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH WILL PERSIST THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING...ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE DRIVING A HIGH PROFILE VEHICLE. SECURE ANY LOOSE ITEMS OUTSIDE OR BRING THEM INDOORS. $$ DORN
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KABR 180138 NPWABR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 738 PM CST SUN FEB 17 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY CANCELLED... MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-180245- /O.CAN.KABR.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-080218T0900Z/ TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-BROWN-MARSHALL- ROBERTS-WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DAY-DEWEY-POTTER-FAULK-SPINK-CLARK- CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN-DEUEL-STANLEY-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-HAND-JONES- LYMAN-BUFFALO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WHEATON...ORTONVILLE...MCLAUGHLIN... HERREID...EUREKA...ABERDEEN...BRITTON...SISSETON...MOBRIDGE... IPSWICH...WEBSTER...TIMBER LAKE...GETTYSBURG...FAULKTON... REDFIELD...CLARK...WATERTOWN...MILBANK...CASTLEWOOD... CLEAR LAKE...FORT PIERRE...ONIDA...PIERRE...HIGHMORE...MILLER... MURDO...PRESHO...FORT THOMPSON 738 PM CST SUN FEB 17 2008 /638 PM MST SUN FEB 17 2008/ ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS ARE BEGINNING TO DECREASE ACROSS THE REGION...AND ARE NO LONGER AT ADVISORY LEVELS. BREEZY CONDITIONS ARE STILL EXPECTED OVERNIGHT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING THOUGH. $$ HINTZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 2:23 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | ABR | Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Edmunds and 6 more | 25 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.