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High Wind Warning 2, NWS Aberdeen, SD

May 24, 2010Jones County, Lyman County, Stanley County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this high wind warning at May 24, 2010, 5:37 AM CDT for Jones County, Lyman County, Stanley County, South Dakota. It took effect at May 24, 2010, 10:00 AM CDT. 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 24, 2010, 5:37 AM CDT (10:37 UTC)
In effect from: May 24, 2010, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 24, 2010, 8:54 PM CDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Stanley County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:36 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 184 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2036 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 164 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 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 23, 3:42 PM CDT, 13 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 3:42 PM CDT, 13 hours 55 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Hand, Hyde, Lyman	32 min
May 24, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes, Potter, Sully	42 min
May 24, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand, Hyde	25 min
May 24, 1:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Day, Marshall	52 min
May 24, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown	47 min
May 24, 1:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Edmunds, Faulk	36 min
May 24, 2:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Potter, Walworth	24 min
May 24, 2:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Dewey	27 min
May 24, 2:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Marshall	10 min
May 24, 2:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Roberts	19 min
May 24, 2:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Clark, Codington	34 min
May 24, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson, Dewey	46 min
May 24, 2:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Codington	27 min
May 24, 3:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown, Marshall	11 min
May 24, 12:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Hand	31 min
May 24, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand	30 min
May 24, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Edmunds, Faulk, Hand	28 min
May 24, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown, Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson, Spink	30 min
May 24, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Hand, Hughes, Hyde, Lyman, Stanley	19 min
May 24, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Hand	27 min
May 24, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk, Hand, Spink	43 min
May 24, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Edmunds, McPherson	25 min
May 24, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Dewey, Hughes, Potter, Stanley, Sully	38 min
May 24, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown, Edmunds, Faulk	33 min
May 24, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	McPherson	31 min
May 24, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk, Spink	3 min
May 24, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Edmunds, McPherson	21 min
May 24, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Campbell, Dewey, Potter, Walworth	17 min
May 24, 6:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABR	Edmunds, McPherson	10 hr
May 24, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Dewey, Hughes, Jones, Lyman, Stanley, Sully	60 min
May 24, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson, Dewey	48 min

Nearby

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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.