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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Aberdeen, SD

September 8, 2009Edmunds County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 2009, 4:40 PM CDT for Edmunds County, South Dakota. It was in force for 27 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
Sep 8, 2009, 4:40 PM CDT (21:40 UTC)
Expired
Sep 8, 2009, 5:07 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Edmunds County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Sep 8, 3:44 PM CDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 3:44 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 8, 4:24 AM CDT, 12 hours 16 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
424 AM CDT TUE SEP 8 2009

MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-090930-
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-
424 AM CDT TUE SEP 8 2009 /324 AM MDT TUE SEP 8 2009/

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
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY THIS
MORNING FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND EAST OF THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY.
WHILE SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY
PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL
ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

BETTER THUNDERSTORM CHANCES EXIST LATER THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE
ENTIRE AREA AS A SLOWLY MOVING FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES THROUGH.
SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE WITH THE MAIN
THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL
WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL LINGER INTO THE
OVERNIGHT HOURS...MAINLY FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND EAST OF THE JAMES
RIVER VALLEY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON.

SD

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 8, 4:28 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 8, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds, Faulk64 min
Sep 8, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Edmunds42 min
Sep 8, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Edmunds, Faulk, Spink46 min
Sep 8, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRJones, Lyman28 min
Sep 8, 5:18 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningABREdmunds4 hr
Sep 8, 6:00 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABRBrown, Spink3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2009Every severe thunderstorm 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.