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Fire Weather Watch 13, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this fire weather watch at Sep 30, 2012, 7:41 PM CDT for Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota. It took effect at Oct 1, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 30, 2012, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 1, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 1, 2012, 3:40 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
Counties Big Stone County, MN, Traverse County, MN
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 238 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3063 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Sep 30, 6:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 6:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 30, 3:52 AM CDT, 15 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 352 AM CDT SUN SEP 30 2012 MNZ039-046-SDZ007-008-011-019>023-010900- TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-MARSHALL-ROBERTS-DAY-CLARK-CODINGTON-GRANT- HAMLIN-DEUEL- 352 AM CDT SUN SEP 30 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. SDZ003>006-009-010-015>018-033>037-045-048-051-010900- CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-BROWN-WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DEWEY-POTTER- FAULK-SPINK-STANLEY-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-HAND-JONES-LYMAN-BUFFALO- 352 AM CDT SUN SEP 30 2012 /252 AM MDT SUN SEP 30 2012/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT VERY DRY AND BREEZY CONDITIONS TODAY WILL RESULT IN RANGELAND FIRE DANGER REACHING THE VERY HIGH TO EXTREME CATEGORY TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. CONNELLY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 3:35 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABR | 23 hr | |
| Oct 1, 3:35 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 15 hr |
Nearby
Fire Weather Watches in Minnesota, 2012Every fire weather watch in 2012
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.