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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Aberdeen, SD

August 11, 2011Buffalo County, Hughes County, Lyman County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2011, 5:59 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Hughes County, Lyman County, South Dakota. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 11, 2011, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired: Aug 11, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Buffalo County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Lyman County, SD

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 213 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 11, 6:20 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 70	Oacoma, SD

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched one storm report to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 21 minutes after it went out.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 11, 3:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1189 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

653 
WUUS53 KABR 112259
SVRABR
SDC017-065-085-120000-
/O.NEW.KABR.SV.W.0187.110811T2259Z-110812T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
559 PM CDT THU AUG 11 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN BUFFALO COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...
  SOUTHEASTERN HUGHES COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...
  LYMAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 557 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
  HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THESE STORMS
  WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM COUNSELOR CREEK REC AREA
  TO 18 MILES SOUTH OF KENNEBEC...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

  AT 540 PM CDT WINDS WERE ESTIMATED AROUND 80 MPH IN PRESHO.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  SHELBY AND OACOMA AROUND 625 PM CDT...
  IONA AROUND 645 PM CDT...

THIS WARNING INCLUDES INTERSTATE 90 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 227 AND 262.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4350 9962 4373 9964 4374 9970 4367 9987
      4369 9990 4370 10024 4419 9974 4394 9904
      4392 9936 4385 9931 4377 9940 4371 9939
      4367 9945 4364 9934 4358 9933 4354 9927
      4349 9930
TIME...MOT...LOC 2258Z 307DEG 28KT 4402 9949 4365 9994
WIND...HAIL 70MPH 1.00IN

$$
TMT

2 follow-up statements

857 
WWUS53 KABR 112331
SVSABR

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
631 PM CDT THU AUG 11 2011

SDC065-112341-
/O.CAN.KABR.SV.W.0187.000000T0000Z-110812T0000Z/
HUGHES SD-
631 PM CDT THU AUG 11 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN HUGHES
COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED OR MOVED OUT OF THE
WARNED AREA.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4350 9962 4373 9964 4374 9970 4408 9949
      4394 9904 4392 9936 4385 9931 4377 9940
      4371 9939 4367 9945 4364 9934 4358 9933
      4354 9927 4349 9930
TIME...MOT...LOC 2331Z 304DEG 33KT 4362 9939

$$

SDC017-085-120000-
/O.CON.KABR.SV.W.0187.000000T0000Z-110812T0000Z/
LYMAN SD-BUFFALO SD-
631 PM CDT THU AUG 11 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
BUFFALO AND SOUTHEASTERN LYMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM CDT...

AT 628 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7
MILES NORTH OF IONA...OR 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHAMBERLAIN...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
SOUTHEASTERN LYMAN AND SOUTHWESTERN BUFFALO COUNTIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4350 9962 4373 9964 4374 9970 4408 9949
      4394 9904 4392 9936 4385 9931 4377 9940
      4371 9939 4367 9945 4364 9934 4358 9933
      4354 9927 4349 9930
TIME...MOT...LOC 2331Z 304DEG 33KT 4362 9939
WIND...HAIL 70MPH 1.00IN

$$
TMT

617 
WWUS53 KABR 112357
SVSABR

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
657 PM CDT THU AUG 11 2011

SDC017-085-120007-
/O.EXP.KABR.SV.W.0187.000000T0000Z-110812T0000Z/
LYMAN SD-BUFFALO SD-
657 PM CDT THU AUG 11 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN BUFFALO AND
SOUTHEASTERN LYMAN COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 700 PM CDT/600 PM MDT/...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA...HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4350 9962 4373 9964 4374 9970 4408 9949
      4394 9904 4392 9936 4385 9931 4377 9940
      4371 9939 4367 9945 4364 9934 4358 9933
      4354 9927 4349 9930
TIME...MOT...LOC 2357Z 304DEG 33KT 4341 9919

$$
TMT

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 Aug 11, 2:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 2:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
246 PM CDT THU AUG 11 2011

.SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT
SHORTWAVE IMPULSE AHEAD OF THE MAIN UPPER LOW IS MOVING EAST
ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS. MID LEVEL JET STREAK ALSO PASSING
THROUGH THE AREA. THIS HAD LET TO SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY
ALREADY ACROSS WESTERN/CENTRAL DAKOTAS. AS CAP CONTINUES TO WEAKEN
LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND INSTABILITY INCREASES...EXPECTING
ADDITIONAL STORM DEVELOPMENT WITH SVR STORMS LIKELY AS WELL. CAPE
VALUES IN EXCESS OF 2000 J/KG AND SHEAR FROM 30 TO 40 KNOTS WILL
ALLOW FOR THIS TO HAPPEN. ACTIVITY WILL SHIFT EAST/SOUTHEAST
THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS WITH A CONTINUED THREAT FOR HAIL AND
STRONG WINDS AND STORMS CONGEAL/FORM A CLUSTER. THERE SHOULD BE A
BREAK IN THE ACTION FRIDAY MORNING BEFORE THE MAIN UPPER LOW
SWINGS SOUTHEAST OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS. WITH THE COOLER TEMPS
ALOFT AND AFTERNOON SFC HEATING...WILL SEE ADDITIONAL SHOWER AND
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY DEVELOP...ESPECIALLY OVER THE EASTERN CWA.
THE UPPER WAVE EXITS THE AREA FRIDAY NIGHT AS SFC HIGH FOLLOWS FOR
THE WEEKEND. LOOKING LIKE A PLEASANT START TO THE WEEKEND WITH DRY
CONDITIONS AND SEASONABLE TEMPERATURES.

.LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
PERIOD STARTS WITH UPPER LEVEL RIDGING AND RISING HEIGHTS OVER
THE CENTRAL US. MEANWHILE...A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM DEVELOPS AND
MOVES INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. AS THIS SYSTEM MOVES EAST
SEVERAL SHORTWAVES WILL EJECT OUT AHEAD OF THE TROUGH AND RIDE
OVER THE RIDGE. AS USUAL MODELS HAVE SLIGHT TIMING DIFFERENCES
WITH THESE SHORT WAVES...AND THUS THE BLANKETING OF LOW POPS
CONTINUES THROUGH THE EXTENDED. THE MAIN LOW IS EXPECTED TO TRACK
EAST ACROSS CANADA...HOWEVER MODELS DIFFER SIGNIFICANTLY ON
TIMING. THE ECMWF DEVELOPS A CLOSED UPPER LOW AND TRACKS IT ACROSS
CANADA FLATTENING THE RIDGE ON WEDNESDAY...ABOUT 24 HOURS FASTER
THAN THE GFS AND GEM. THE GFS ALSO SWINGS THE LOW FURTHER
SOUTH...WITH A MUCH MORE PRONOUNCED 700 MB BAROCLINIC ZONE. DUE TO
THE LARGE DIFFERENCES...STUCK WITH A MODEL BLEND FOR MUCH OF THE
EXTENDED.

&&

.AVIATION...
TAFS FOR THE KABR...KATY...KPIR AND KMBG TERMINALS

VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. THE EXCEPTION
WILL BE KMBG WHICH COULD SEE BRIEF PERIODS OF LIGHT RAIN ASSOCIATED
WITH A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LEFT OVER FROM
ELEVATED CONVECTION THAT DEVELOPED IN EASTERN MONTANA THIS
MORNING. LATER IN THE AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THE MAIN WAVE OF
ENERGY WILL MAKE ITS WAY INTO THE REGION AND MORE ORGANIZED STORMS
WILL TAKE SHAPE AND DEVELOP FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE STATE.
PERIODS OF IFR/MVFR CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE UNDER STRONGER
THUNDERSTORMS.

&&

.ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...NONE.
MN...NONE.
&&

SHORT TERM...TMT
LONG TERM...SERR
AVIATION...SERR

WEATHER.GOV/ABERDEEN

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 11, 4:33 AM CDT, 13 hours 26 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
433 AM CDT THU AUG 11 2011

MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-120945-
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-
433 AM CDT THU AUG 11 2011 /333 AM MDT THU AUG 11 2011/

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

THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL BE INCREASING AS AN UPPER LEVEL LOW
PRESSURE TROUGH MOVES INTO THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE WITH
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

OFF AND ON CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

MOHR

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 11, 4:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
403 PM CDT THU AUG 11 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0320 PM     HAIL             9 NNW SANSARC           44.62N 101.11W
08/11/2011  E0.75 INCH       STANLEY            SD   PUBLIC

&&

EVENT NUMBER ABR1100051

MARTIN

Local storm report, Aug 11, 4:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
441 PM CDT THU AUG 11 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0420 PM     HAIL             2 E ONIDA               44.71N 100.02W
08/11/2011  E1.00 INCH       SULLY              SD   PUBLIC

            HAIL IN DRIFTS UP TO 1 FOOT DEEP.

&&

EVENT NUMBER ABR1100052

MARTIN

Local storm report, Aug 11, 5:09 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
509 PM CDT THU AUG 11 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0447 PM     HAIL             8 NW OKATON             43.97N 101.01W
08/11/2011  E1.50 INCH       JONES              SD   PUBLIC

            PING PONG SIZED HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS REPORTED

0447 PM     TSTM WND GST     8 NW OKATON             43.97N 101.01W
08/11/2011  E60 MPH          JONES              SD   PUBLIC

            PING PONG SIZED HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS REPORTED

&&

EVENT NUMBER ABR1100053
EVENT NUMBER ABR1100054

MARTIN

Local storm report, Aug 11, 5:12 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
512 PM CDT THU AUG 11 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0505 PM     HAIL             MURDO                   43.89N 100.71W
08/11/2011  E1.00 INCH       JONES              SD   PUBLIC

            QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN MURDO PROPER

&&

EVENT NUMBER ABR1100055

MARTIN

Local storm report, Aug 11, 5:39 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
539 PM CDT THU AUG 11 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0530 PM     TSTM WND GST     9 S FORT PIERRE         44.23N 100.37W
08/11/2011  M76 MPH          STANLEY            SD   MESONET

&&

EVENT NUMBER ABR1100056

MARTIN

Local storm report, Aug 11, 5:49 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
549 PM CDT THU AUG 11 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0540 PM     TSTM WND GST     PRESHO                  43.91N 100.06W
08/11/2011  E80 MPH          LYMAN              SD   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            GRAIN BINS BLOWN OVER. TRUCKS BLOWN OFF OF HIGHWAY.

&&

EVENT NUMBER ABR1100057

MARTIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 11, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Dewey, Stanley, Sully	64 min
Aug 11, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes, Hyde, Stanley, Sully	66 min
Aug 11, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes, Jones, Lyman, Stanley, Sully	59 min
Aug 11, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Hand, Hughes, Hyde, Lyman, Sully	45 min
Aug 11, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Hughes, Jones, Lyman, Stanley	55 min
Aug 11, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Hand, Hyde, Lyman, Spink	45 min

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.