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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 2013, 4:15 PM CDT for Roberts County, South Dakota; Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 2013, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2013, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Big Stone County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Roberts County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 31, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 500 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
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 31, 3:36 PM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 3:36 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 336 PM CDT SAT AUG 31 2013 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT CONVECTION HAS BEGUN ALONG THE COLD FRONT ACROSS MARSHALL AND DAY COUNTIES...WITH WEAKER POST FRONTAL SHOWERS AND STORMS FARTHER WEST. FOCUS REMAINS ON THE CONVECTION ALONG THE FRONT...WHICH WILL AFFECT THE EASTERN CWA FOR A FEW MORE HOURS. SVR WATCH 507 HAS ALREADY BEEN ISSUED AND COVERS THE EASTERN CWA. ALL ACTIVITY WILL END LATER THIS EVENING AS THE FRONT PUSHES FARTHER EAST INTO MINNESOTA. HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN BE BUILDING INTO THE AREA ON SUNDAY WITH COOLER TEMPS ARRIVING AS WELL. HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN IN CONTROL OF THE WEATHER THROUGH MONDAY...BRINGING DRY CONDITIONS AND PLEASANT TEMPERATURES. .LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NOT A WHOLE LOT HAS CHANGED IN 24 HOURS. AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE IS STILL FORECAST TO BUILD BACK INTO THE REGION. MOST OF THE PERIOD IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN DRY WITH TEMPERATURES WARMING BACK INTO THE 80S AND 90S FOR MUCH OF THE CWA. && .AVIATION... 18Z TAFS FOR THE KABR...KATY...KPIR AND KMBG TERMINALS VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED AT ALL TERMINALS THROUGH THE NEXT 24 HOURS...EXCEPT WHILE SHORT-LIVED THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING. CONVECTION HAS ALREADY DEVELOPED ACROSS THE WESTERN DAKOTAS...AND WILL WORK THROUGH THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN DAKOTAS NOW THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING ALONG AND AHEAD OF A FAST-MOVING COLD FRONT SWEEPING SOUTHEASTWARD THROUGH THE NORTHERN PLAINS TODAY/TONIGHT. LOOK FOR AN ABRUPT SWITCH IN WIND DIRECTION FROM SOUTH-SOUTHWESTERLY AHEAD OF THE FRONT TO NORTHWESTERLY POST FRONTAL...WITH SPEEDS INCREASING GENERALLY TO 10 TO 20 KNOTS WITH HIGHER GUSTS FOR SEVERAL HOURS POST FRONTAL. HAD A BRIEF WEAK RAIN SHOWER PASS OVER KPIR A LITTLE BIT AGO. SEEING A FEW MORE ECHOES DEVELOPING OFF TO THE WEST OF KPIR RIGHT NOW...AND MAY HAVE TO REINTRODUCE A TEMPO PERIOD OF TS THERE FOR ANOTHER OUR OR TWO. SCATTERED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS ARE ONGOING RIGHT NOW AT KMBG AND LOOK TO CONTINUE THERE UNTIL APPX 19Z...BEFORE THE KMBG TAF CLEARS OUT. FURTHER EAST...THE KABR AND KATY TERMINALS ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO RECEIVE SOME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON...TIMED TO REACH KABR BY APPX 21Z...POSSIBLY LASTING INTO EARLY THIS EVENING AT KATY. BY THE TIME STORMS ARE GETTING INTO NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA LATER THIS AFTERNOON...SOME STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY SEVERE WX THREAT. && .ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. && SHORT TERM...TMT LONG TERM...DORN AVIATION...DORN WEATHER.GOV/ABERDEEN
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 31, 3:59 AM CDT, 12 hours 16 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 359 AM CDT SAT AUG 31 2013 MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-010900- 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- 359 AM CDT SAT AUG 31 2013 /259 AM MDT SAT AUG 31 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 STORMS WILL REDEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. THE RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE GREATEST EAST OF THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY. STORMS WILL PROCEED TO THE EAST/SOUTHEAST...AND ARE EXPECTED TO EXIT THE FORECAST AREA BY THE LATE EVENING/EARLY MORNING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. CONNELLY
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 31, 3:21 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
321 PM CDT SAT AUG 31 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0315 PM HAIL 5 N ROSLYN 45.57N 97.49W
08/31/2013 E1.00 INCH DAY SD FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
ROSLYN FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED QUARTER SIZED HAIL ON
HWY 25 NORTH OF ROSLYN
&&
EVENT NUMBER ABR1300755
TROGDONLocal storm report, Aug 31, 3:48 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
348 PM CDT SAT AUG 31 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0341 PM HAIL 3 NNE NEW EFFINGTON 45.90N 96.90W
08/31/2013 E1.75 INCH ROBERTS SD PUBLIC
RESIDENT REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL AS THE STORM
MOVED THROUGH
&&
EVENT NUMBER ABR1300756
TROGDONLocal storm report, Aug 31, 3:49 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
349 PM CDT SAT AUG 31 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0349 PM HAIL ROSHOLT 45.87N 96.73W
08/31/2013 E0.88 INCH ROBERTS SD TRAINED SPOTTER
SPOTTER REPORTED NICKEL SIZED HAIL ONGOING
&&
EVENT NUMBER ABR1300757
TROGDONLocal storm report, Aug 31, 4:13 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Day, Marshall, Roberts | 55 min |
| Aug 31, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Roberts | 65 min |
| Aug 31, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Big Stone | 31 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2013Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013
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.