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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Aberdeen, SD

May 24, 20106 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2010, 5:45 PM MDT for 6 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 60 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, 5:45 PM MDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2010, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
70.0 mph

Counties Dewey County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 193 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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
May 24, 11:21 AM MDTTornado WatchSPC9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 2010-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 224 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 2010-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 526 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
224 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-383 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1830 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
89 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
526 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
528 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 11:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Hand, Hyde, Lyman32 min
May 24, 12:18 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes, Potter, Sully42 min
May 24, 12:20 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand, Hyde25 min
May 24, 12:23 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDay, Marshall52 min
May 24, 12:28 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown47 min
May 24, 12:46 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds, Faulk36 min
May 24, 1:00 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRPotter, Walworth24 min
May 24, 1:03 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey27 min
May 24, 1:05 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRMarshall10 min
May 24, 1:11 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRRoberts19 min
May 24, 1:26 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark, Codington34 min
May 24, 1:29 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson, Dewey46 min
May 24, 1:48 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCodington27 min
May 24, 2:12 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Marshall11 min
May 24, 4:37 AM MDTHigh Wind WarningABRJones, Lyman, Stanley15 hr
May 24, 11:59 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Hand31 min
May 24, 12:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand30 min
May 24, 1:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds, Faulk, Hand28 min
May 24, 1:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson, Spink30 min
May 24, 2:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Hand, Hughes, Hyde, Lyman, Stanley19 min
May 24, 3:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Hand27 min
May 24, 3:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk, Hand, Spink43 min
May 24, 3:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds, McPherson25 min
May 24, 3:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey, Hughes, Potter, Stanley, Sully38 min
May 24, 4:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Edmunds, Faulk33 min
May 24, 4:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRMcPherson31 min
May 24, 4:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk, Spink3 min
May 24, 4:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds, McPherson21 min
May 24, 4:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, Dewey, Potter, Walworth17 min
May 24, 5:08 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABREdmunds, McPherson10 hr
May 24, 5:57 PM MDTSevere 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.