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Wind Advisory 22, NWS Aberdeen, SD

May 17, 20125 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this wind advisory at May 17, 2012, 2:42 PM CDT for 5 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 2012, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2012, 7:23 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Codington County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Roberts County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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 12:00Z, 7.7 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 329 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 330 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

958 
WWUS73 KABR 171942
NPWABR

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
242 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2012

...STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS ALONG I-29 WILL PERSIST INTO THIS EVENING...

.GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE CHANNELING UP THE I-29 CORRIDOR FROM
BRANDT TO SUMMIT. THESE WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH THIS
EVENING.

SDZ008-020>023-180100-
/O.NEW.KABR.WI.Y.0022.120517T1942Z-120518T0100Z/
ROBERTS-CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN-DEUEL-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SISSETON...WATERTOWN...MILBANK...
CASTLEWOOD...CLEAR LAKE
242 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2012

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. 

* TIMING...WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH TOWARD SUNDOWN.

* WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL
  FUNNEL UP THE I-29 CORRIDOR.


PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR HIGHER
ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...
ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION.

&&

$$

1 follow-up statement

871 
WWUS73 KABR 180023
NPWABR

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
723 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2012

...WIND ADVISORY CANCELLED...

.WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED ACROSS NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA THIS
EVENING.

SDZ008-020>023-180130-
/O.CAN.KABR.WI.Y.0022.000000T0000Z-120518T0100Z/
ROBERTS-CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN-DEUEL-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SISSETON...WATERTOWN...MILBANK...
CASTLEWOOD...CLEAR LAKE
723 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2012

...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS CANCELLED THE WIND
ADVISORY. 

$$
TMT

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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.