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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Aberdeen, SD

May 24, 2010Edmunds County, Faulk County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2010, 1:46 AM CDT for Edmunds County, Faulk County, South Dakota. It was in force for 36 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
May 24, 2010, 1:46 AM CDT (06:46 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2010, 2:22 AM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
50.0 mph

Counties Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:47 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 72 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 2010-05-24Temperature 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 2010-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 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
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 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 May 23, 3:42 PM CDT, 10 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 3:42 PM CDT, 10 hours 4 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 5:33 AM CDT, 20 hours 13 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
533 AM CDT SUN MAY 23 2010

MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-241045-
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-
533 AM CDT SUN MAY 23 2010 /433 AM MDT SUN MAY 23 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 EXPECTED TO FORM ACROSS THE AREA
LATE TONIGHT...SOME OF WHICH MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE BIGGEST THREAT
FROM ANY SEVERE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY AGAIN ON MONDAY AND MONDAY EVENING AS
WELL. SEVERE STORMS ARE ALSO A GOOD POSSIBILITY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE
ALSO IN THE FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...BUT THE
SEVERE THREAT DURING THIS TIME DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE AS GREAT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 12:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Hand, Hyde, Lyman32 min
May 24, 1:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes, Potter, Sully42 min
May 24, 1:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand, Hyde25 min
May 24, 1:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDay, Marshall52 min
May 24, 1:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown47 min
May 24, 2:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRPotter, Walworth24 min
May 24, 2:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey27 min
May 24, 2:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRMarshall10 min
May 24, 2:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRRoberts19 min
May 24, 2:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark, Codington34 min
May 24, 2:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson, Dewey46 min
May 24, 2:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCodington27 min
May 24, 3:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Marshall11 min
May 24, 5:37 AM CDTHigh Wind WarningABRJones, Lyman, Stanley15 hr
May 24, 12:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Hand31 min
May 24, 1:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand30 min
May 24, 2:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds, Faulk, Hand28 min
May 24, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson, Spink30 min
May 24, 3:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Hand, Hughes, Hyde, Lyman, Stanley19 min
May 24, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Hand27 min
May 24, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk, Hand, Spink43 min
May 24, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds, McPherson25 min
May 24, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey, Hughes, Potter, Stanley, Sully38 min
May 24, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Edmunds, Faulk33 min
May 24, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRMcPherson31 min
May 24, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk, Spink3 min
May 24, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds, McPherson21 min
May 24, 5:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, Dewey, Potter, Walworth17 min
May 24, 6:08 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABREdmunds, McPherson10 hr
May 24, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey, Hughes, Jones, Lyman, Stanley, Sully60 min
May 24, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson, Dewey48 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.