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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Aberdeen, SD

August 18, 2011Campbell County, Corson County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2011, 3:23 PM CDT for Campbell County, Corson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 42 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: Aug 18, 2011, 3:23 PM CDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 2011, 4:05 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 1365 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1577 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 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 Aug 18, 2:56 PM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 2:56 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
256 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2011

.SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT
MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE IS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.
LATEST HI-RESOLUTION MODELS DEVELOPING A LINE OF T-STORMS NEAR THE
MO RIVER...THEN PROPAGATE THE LINE EWD LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING. MODELS ALSO INDICATING AN EARLY END TO THE SEVERE
WX LATER THIS EVENING. DRIER...SLIGHTLY MORE STABLE AIR PUSHES IN FROM
THE NORTH TONIGHT...IN THE WAKE OF SFC LOW/UPPER TROUGH. H85 TEMPS
COOL 7-8C BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON...COOLING MOST AREAS ABOUT 15 DEGREES
FROM TODAYS MAX TEMPS. MAY SEE A SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOP
DURING THE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING FRIDAY WITH STRONG H7-H5 LAPSE
RATES REMAINING IN PLACE AND MODELS HINTING AT ANOTHER H5 SPEED
MAX MOVING THROUGH. SFC HIGH SLIDES SEWD ON SATURDAY...ALLOWING
FOR SELY RETURN FLOW TO SET UP AND AT LEAST A PARTLY CLOUDY DAY
SIMILAR TO WEDNESDAY WITH AREAS OF MID-LEVEL/ACCAS CLOUDS AND A
FEW SPRINKLES.

.LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
MODELS AGREE WITH THE PROGRESSION OF THE UPPER LEVEL FLOW PATTERN
ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS...HOWEVER THERE IS TIMING AND PLACEMENT
ISSUES WITH INDIVIDUAL SHORT WAVES.

THE PERIOD BEGINS WITH A WEAKLY AMPLIFIED UPPER LEVER RIDGE OVER
THE NORTHERN PLAINS...WITH LLM POOLING ALONG THE FRONT RANGE OF
THE ROCKIES. THE LLM IS EXPECTED TO PUSH INTO THE CWA BY MONDAY
WITH SURFACE DEW POINTS WARMING INTO THE MID 60S. THE ADDED
MOISTURE COUPLED WITH A WEAK MID LEVEL TROF COULD RESULT IN
ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ON MONDAY AFTERNOON AND
MONDAY. THE WEAK MID LEVEL TROF IS SHOWN TO DEEPEN OVER THE OHIO
RIVER VALLEY BY TUESDAY WHICH WILL ALLOW FOR A RIDGE TO BUILD OVER
ROCKY MOUNTAINS. THIS RIDGE...COMBINED WITH A SURFACE HIGH
PRESSURE WILL RESULT IN DRY CONDITIONS FROM TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH
THE END OF THE FORECAST PERIOD.

&&

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

PREVAILING VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH
FRIDAY AFTERNOON. HOWEVER A COLD FRONT WILL SLIDE ACROSS THE AREA
THIS AFTERNOON WITH WINDS SHIFTING FROM THE SOUTH...TO THE
NORTHWEST BEHIND THE FRONT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE
ALONG THE COLD FRONT. ANY THUNDERSTORM WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO
PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF MVFR TO IFR CONDITIONS.

&&

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

SHORT TERM...CHURCH
LONG TERM...SD
AVIATION...SD

WEATHER.GOV/ABERDEEN

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 18, 5:19 AM CDT, 10 hours 4 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
519 AM CDT THU AUG 18 2011

MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-191030-
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-
519 AM CDT THU AUG 18 2011 /419 AM MDT THU AUG 18 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

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT.
INITIAL STRONG STORM DEVELOPMENT LOOKS TO BE GENERALLY ALONG OR
WEST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER VALLEY LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY
THIS AFTERNOON. THEN...THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER BEGINS TO
TRANSITION EAST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER VALLEY INTO EASTERN SOUTH
DAKOTA LATE IN THE AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE IN THE EVENING. THE
PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER TYPES LOOK TO BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS. HOWEVER...ISOLATED TORNADOES CAN NOT BE ENTIRELY RULED
OUT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL
SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

DORN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 18, 9:52 AM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 18, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Campbell, Corson	49 min
Aug 18, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	63 min
Aug 18, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Walworth	46 min
Aug 18, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Potter, Walworth	27 min
Aug 18, 6:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABR	Faulk, Hyde, Potter	6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2011 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2011

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.