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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 16, 2010Dewey County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2010, 8:06 PM MDT for Dewey County, South Dakota. It was in force for 22 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 16, 2010, 8:06 PM MDT (02:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2010, 8:28 PM MDT
In force
22 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Dewey County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 180 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:09 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 16, 6:20 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2010-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 935 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2010-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 174 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
935 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-190 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1650 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 6:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey64 min
Jun 16, 6:54 PM MDTTornado WarningABRDewey51 min
Jun 16, 7:32 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABRDewey3 hr
Jun 16, 7:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey60 min
Jun 16, 8:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey46 min
Jun 16, 9:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey62 min
Jun 16, 10:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, Corson, Dewey, Potter, Walworth38 min
Jun 16, 10:26 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABRDewey9 hr
Jun 16, 10:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey, Stanley49 min
Jun 16, 11:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson, Potter, Walworth57 min
Jun 17, 7:49 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABRDewey24 hr
Jun 17, 12:21 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningABRDewey20 hr

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.