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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 18, 2009Edmunds County, McPherson County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2009, 4:13 PM CDT for Edmunds County, McPherson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 16 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 18, 2009, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 2009, 4:29 PM CDT
In force
16 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Edmunds County, SD, McPherson County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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 18, 1:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 100 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 12:00Z on 2009-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 725 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 12:00Z on 2009-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 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
725 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jun 18, 3:17 PM CDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 3:17 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
317 PM CDT THU JUN 18 2009

.SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT
AN ACTIVE EVENING IN STORE FOR THE REGION. PER WATER VAPOR IMAGERY A
WAVE ALOFT IS MOVING ACROSS THE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON
PROVIDING SOME LIFT AND MID LEVEL COOLING. MEANWHILE A WEAK BUT
EFFECTIVE WARM FRONT IS SPLAYED OUT EAST TO WEST ALONG THE SOUTH
DAKOTA/NORTH DAKOTA BORDER. STORMS THAT TRAVEL NEAR THIS BOUNDARY
HAVE THE BEST POTENTIAL FOR TORNADO GENESIS. PER MODEL DATA AND
RECENT 18Z RAOB...LOW LEVEL SHEAR IS FAIRLY WEAK...BUT OVERALL
DEEP LAYER SHEAR IS FAIRLY STRONG. THAT IN COMBINATION WITH PLENTY
OF ML/SFC BASED CAPE SUGGESTS SEVERE IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING WITH ISOLATED SCT CELLS BECOMING A LINE AND TRACKING EAST
DURING THE EVENING. EVERYTHING SHOULD PUSH OFF INTO MINNESOTA BEFORE
MIDNIGHT. BEHIND THE SYSTEM THE WEATHER LOOKS FAIRLY QUIET FOR A
COUPLE DAYS WITH MAYBE SOME SHOWERS OVER THE EASTERN CWA ON
FRIDAY...AND THEN AGAIN LATE SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY AS MORE
ENERGY RIDES UP AND OVER THE MID LEVEL RIDGE. TEMPERATURES WILL BE
SEASONAL TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH MUCH OF THE TIME PERIOD.

.LONG TERM...SUNDAY AM THROUGH THURSDAY
GOOD OVERALL AGREEMENT EXISTS WITH UPPER FEATURES THROUGH THE
EXTENDED. UPPER PATTERN IS DOMINATED BY PERSISTENT WEST COAST
TROUGH AND SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT. PARADE OF EMBEDDED SHORTWAVES
PROMISES A DAILY ENVIRONMENT SET FOR THUNDERSTORMS. LONG RANGE
ENSEMBLES INDICATE BOTH H85/925 AND PWAT ANOMALIES OF +1 STANDARD
DEVIATION...SO TEMPERATURES AND HUMIDITY WILL RUN WARMER/MORE
HUMID THAN THE CLIMATOLOGICAL AVERAGE FOR LATE JUNE.

&&

.AVIATION...
MAJORITY VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH THE PERIOD OUTSIDE OF THE
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ANTICIPATED DURING THE AFTERNOON/EVENING
HOURS. KMBG/KPIR TERMINALS HAVE THE LOWER PROBABILITY OF STORMS
EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...WITH HIGHER PROBABILITY TO THE EAST THIS
EVENING. ACTIVITY WILL CLEAR AND VFR CONDITIONS WILL RETURN TO THE
AREA OVERNIGHT. FOG MAY SET IN IF HEAVY PRECIPITATION IS REALIZED
AT ANY OF THE TAF SITES.

&&

.ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...NONE.
MN...NONE.
&&

SHORT TERM...TDK
LONG TERM...CONNELLY
AVIATION...CONNELLY

WEATHER.GOV/ABERDEEN
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 1:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
158 PM CDT THU JUN 18 2009

MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-034>037-191900-
TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-BROWN-MARSHALL-
ROBERTS-WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DAY-DEWEY-POTTER-FAULK-SPINK-CLARK-
CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN-DEUEL-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-HAND-
158 PM CDT THU JUN 18 2009 /1258 PM MDT THU JUN 18 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...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND
INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS IS
HIGH WINDS AND HAIL...HOWEVER ISOLATED TORNADOES MAY ALSO BE
POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY WITH NONE
EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN RETURNS TO
THE AREA ON SATURDAY NIGHT...WITH THUNDERSTORM CHANCES PERSISTING
THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

SDZ033-045-048-051-191900-
STANLEY-JONES-LYMAN-BUFFALO-
158 PM CDT THU JUN 18 2009 /1258 PM MDT THU JUN 18 2009/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON HOWEVER THEY ARE NOT
EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY WITH NONE
EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN RETURNS TO
THE AREA ON SATURDAY NIGHT...WITH THUNDERSTORM CHANCES PERSISTING
THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

CONNELLY

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 9:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRJones53 min
Jun 17, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRStanley21 min
Jun 17, 11:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRSully34 min
Jun 18, 2:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, McPherson51 min
Jun 18, 2:47 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCampbell, McPherson43 min
Jun 18, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCampbell, McPherson50 min
Jun 18, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds, McPherson58 min
Jun 18, 3:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRDewey27 min
Jun 18, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Edmunds, McPherson56 min
Jun 18, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Edmunds, Faulk, Spink62 min
Jun 18, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRRoberts60 min
Jun 18, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes, Stanley, Sully41 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.