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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Aberdeen, SD

May 25, 20105 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this wind advisory at May 25, 2010, 3:28 AM CDT for 5 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 2010, 3:28 AM CDT (08:28 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Walworth County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:32 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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 2010-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2071 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 2010-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 273 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
2071 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
273 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
331 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
4.5
Supercell composite
18.9

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk and 9 more66 min
May 24, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Buffalo, Campbell, Edmunds, Faulk, Hand and 2 more50 min
May 24, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Clark, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, Hand and 3 more48 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.