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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Aberdeen, SD
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 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.
- 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
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
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Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 17, 9:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Jones | 53 min |
| Jun 17, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Stanley | 21 min |
| Jun 17, 11:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Sully | 34 min |
| Jun 18, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, McPherson | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 2:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Campbell, McPherson | 43 min |
| Jun 18, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Campbell, McPherson | 50 min |
| Jun 18, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, McPherson | 58 min |
| Jun 18, 3:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Dewey | 27 min |
| Jun 18, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Edmunds, McPherson | 56 min |
| Jun 18, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Edmunds, Faulk, Spink | 62 min |
| Jun 18, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Roberts | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Stanley, Sully | 41 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.