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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Aberdeen, SD

May 13, 20095 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this high wind warning at May 13, 2009, 2:27 AM MDT for 5 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at May 13, 2009, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 11 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
May 13, 2009, 2:27 AM MDT (08:27 UTC)
In effect from
May 13, 2009, 9:00 AM MDT
Expired
May 13, 2009, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 182 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:29 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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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 2009-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 281 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2009-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
281 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1743 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind warning went out at May 12, 8:59 PM MDT, 5 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 12, 8:59 PM MDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 12, 3:09 AM MDT, 23 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
409 AM CDT TUE MAY 12 2009

SDZ003>006-009-010-015>018-033>037-045-048-051-130915-
CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-BROWN-WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DEWEY-POTTER-
FAULK-SPINK-STANLEY-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-HAND-JONES-LYMAN-BUFFALO-
409 AM CDT TUE MAY 12 2009 /309 AM MDT TUE MAY 12 2009/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL SOUTH
DAKOTA...NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT.
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME
SEVERE. THE MAIN THREATS ARE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND
LIGHTNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE AREA EARLY WEDNESDAY.
BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...IN THE WAKE OF THIS FRONT...WINDY CONDITIONS
WILL DEVELOP WITH SUSTAINED WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30
MPH ARE LIKELY WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 TO 50 MPH.

THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY FOR THUNDERSTORMS COMES FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

MNZ039-046-SDZ007-008-011-019>023-130915-
TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-MARSHALL-ROBERTS-DAY-CLARK-CODINGTON-GRANT-
HAMLIN-DEUEL-
409 AM CDT TUE MAY 12 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL
MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. WINDS OF 20 TO 30
MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON
HOURS...PARTICULARLY FOR THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE SISSETON
HILLS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE AREA EARLY WEDNESDAY.
BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...IN THE WAKE OF THIS FRONT...WINDY CONDITIONS
WILL DEVELOP WITH SUSTAINED WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30
MPH ARE LIKELY WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 TO 50 MPH.

THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY FOR THUNDERSTORMS COMES FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

CONNELLY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 6:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey, Potter, Walworth41 min
May 12, 6:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRLyman32 min
May 12, 7:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Lyman45 min
May 12, 7:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk, Potter49 min
May 12, 8:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk, Hand, Hughes, Hyde, Potter, Sully11 min
May 12, 8:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSpink13 min

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in South Dakota, 2009Every high wind warning in 2009

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.