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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2013, 5:34 PM CDT for Traverse County, Minnesota. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 2013, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2013, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Traverse County, MN
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 5:40 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 Nne Wheaton, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1198 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 6, 3:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 3:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 4:21 AM CDT, 13 hours 13 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 421 AM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013 MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-070930- 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- 421 AM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013 /321 AM MDT TUE AUG 6 2013/ 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 THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA THROUGH THE MID MORNING HOURS. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATER THIS AFTERNOON FOR NORTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG AND PRODUCE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. SOME OF THIS THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 3:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 318 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013 MNZ039-062045- TRAVERSE- 318 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013 ...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR CENTRAL TRAVERSE COUNTY UNTIL 345 PM CDT... AT 313 PM CDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NEAR SILVER BRIDGE...OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHEATON...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. A FEW LOCATIONS IN THE ADVISORY INCLUDE WHEATON...DUMONT...COLLIS AND TRINITY LUTHERAN COUNTRY CHURCH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE WITH QUARTER SIZE HAIL OR GREATER. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. && TMT
Local storm report, Aug 6, 3:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Jones, Stanley | 38 min |
| Aug 6, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Traverse | 21 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.