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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 6, 2010Hand County, Hyde County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2010, 9:48 PM CDT for Hand County, Hyde County, South Dakota. It was in force for 57 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
Jul 6, 2010, 9:48 PM CDT (02:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2010, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Hand County, SD, Hyde County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 77 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 00:00Z on 2010-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2010-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1773 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
441 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 6, 3:26 PM CDT, 6 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 3:26 PM CDT, 6 hours 22 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 4:42 AM CDT, 17 hours 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
442 AM CDT TUE JUL 6 2010

MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-070945-
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-
442 AM CDT TUE JUL 6 2010 /342 AM MDT TUE JUL 6 2010/

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

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS THE REGION THIS
EVENING THROUGH THE NIGHT. INITIALLY...SOME SEVERE STORMS ARE
POSSIBLE IN THE EVENING FOR CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. WITH THE REST OF
THE THUNDERSTORMS...LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

RESIDUAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE
WEDNESDAY...ESPECIALLY IN THE EAST. OTHERWISE THE NEXT CHANCES FOR
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

ATG

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 6, 3:57 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark, Spink47 min
Jul 6, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark, Spink41 min
Jul 6, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark, Spink46 min
Jul 6, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark, Codington, Hamlin44 min
Jul 6, 9:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark, Codington, Hamlin38 min
Jul 6, 10:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningABRFaulk, Hand, Hyde4 hr
Jul 6, 11:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningABRClark, Spink5 hr
Jul 7, 8:58 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningABRClark, Codington, Day, Hamlin, Hand, Spink48 hr
Jul 7, 10:15 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningABRHamlin23 hr
Jul 7, 11:07 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningABRSpink8 days

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in South Dakota, 2010Every flash flood warning in 2010

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.