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Winter Weather Advisory 7, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

February 22, 20127 counties in South Dakota; 5 counties in Iowa; Lincoln County, Lyon County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 22, 2012, 4:02 PM CST for 7 counties in South Dakota; 5 counties in Iowa; Lincoln County, Lyon County, Minnesota. It took effect at Feb 23, 2012, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 22, 2012, 4:02 PM CST (22:02 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 23, 2012, 12:00 AM CST
Expired
Feb 22, 2012, 10:39 PM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD

Counties Clay County, IA, Lyon County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Hanson County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, McCook County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Turner County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 199 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2012-02-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2012-02-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
256 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 22, 11:03 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDBeadle, Brookings, Kingsbury, Lake, McCook, Miner and 2 more5 hr
Feb 22, 4:02 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningFSDBeadle, Brookings, Davison, Hanson, Hutchinson, Jerauld and 10 more29 hr
Feb 22, 4:09 PM CSTWind AdvisoryFSDBon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Gregory, Union, Yankton26 hr

Nearby

Winter Weather Advisories in South Dakota, 2012Winter Weather Advisories in Iowa, 2012Winter Weather Advisories in Minnesota, 2012Every winter weather advisory 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.