Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2012, 8:58 PM CDT for 5 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2012, 8:58 PM CDT (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2012, 9:28 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Hughes County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 184 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 549 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
076 WUUS53 KABR 270158 SVRABR SDC065-075-085-117-119-270245- /O.NEW.KABR.SV.W.0039.120527T0158Z-120527T0245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 858 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HUGHES COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... NORTHEASTERN JONES COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... NORTHWESTERN LYMAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHEASTERN STANLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... WESTERN SULLY COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... * UNTIL 945 PM CDT/845 PM MDT/ * AT 854 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WENDTE...OR 17 MILES SOUTH OF FORT PIERRE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FORT PIERRE AROUND 810 PM MDT... PIERRE...OVERLOOK REC AREA...WEST SHORE REC AREA AND OAHE MISSION REC AREA AROUND 915 PM CDT... ROSSEAU...GREY GOOSE...SPRING CREEK REC AREA AND COW CREEK REC AREA AROUND 920 PM CDT... CANNING AND OKOBOJO CREEK REC AREA AROUND 925 PM CDT... BLUNT AROUND 935 PM CDT... THIS WARNING INCLUDES HIGHWAY 83 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 99 AND 151. THIS WARNING INCLUDES HIGHWAY 14 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 217 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. && LAT...LON 4485 10037 4447 9968 4399 10033 4419 10068 TIME...MOT...LOC 0158Z 216DEG 47KT 4417 10041 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ DORN
1 follow-up statement
763 WWUS53 KABR 270228 SVSABR SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 928 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012 SDC065-075-085-117-119-270236- /O.CAN.KABR.SV.W.0039.000000T0000Z-120527T0245Z/ SULLY SD-LYMAN SD-HUGHES SD-JONES SD-STANLEY SD- 928 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN STANLEY... NORTHEASTERN JONES...NORTHERN HUGHES...NORTHWESTERN LYMAN AND WESTERN SULLY COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY...HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 30 MPH WERE OBSERVED WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 4485 10037 4447 9968 4399 10033 4419 10068 TIME...MOT...LOC 0226Z 216DEG 47KT 4447 10011 $$ DORN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand, Hughes, Hyde, Sully | 46 min |
| May 26, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Day, Marshall | 66 min |
| May 26, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Faulk, Hand, Hyde, Potter, Sully | 62 min |
| May 26, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson | 51 min |
| May 26, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Marshall, Roberts | 25 min |
| May 26, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Edmunds, Faulk, Spink | 44 min |
| May 26, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Marshall | 32 min |
| May 27, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Corson, Dewey | 29 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.