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Wind Chill Advisory 8, NWS Aberdeen, SD

December 4, 201326 counties in South Dakota; Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this wind chill advisory at Dec 4, 2013, 2:55 PM CST for 26 counties in South Dakota; Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota. It took effect at Dec 5, 2013, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 60 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 4, 2013, 2:55 PM CST (20:55 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 5, 2013, 12:00 AM CST
Expired: Dec 7, 2013, 12:00 PM CST
In force: 60 hr
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD

All 28 counties

Big Stone County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Brown County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Corson County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Potter County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Spink County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 34 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: 452 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 369 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Dec 3, 5:38 PM CST, 21 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 3, 5:38 PM CST, 21 hours 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 3, 3:28 PM CST, 23 hours 27 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
328 PM CST TUE DEC 3 2013

MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-042130-
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-
328 PM CST TUE DEC 3 2013 /228 PM MST TUE DEC 3 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...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SNOW WILL AFFECT THE AREA OVERNIGHT WITH BLOWING SNOW AND REDUCED
VISIBILITY BECOMING AN ISSUE OVER CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

SNOW WILL CONTINUE OVER EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL
MINNESOTA THROUGH THE DAY WEDNESDAY...ALONG WITH INCREASING NORTH
TO NORTHWEST WINDS. STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL WITH THIS SYSTEM IS
EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM 3 TO 8 INCHES ACROSS THE REGION. BLOWING
SNOW AND REDUCED VISIBILITY WILL BE AN ISSUE ON WEDNESDAY FOR
EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

ARCTIC COLD AIR WILL FOLLOW THIS STORM SYSTEM FOR THE END OF THE
WEEK. BY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...HIGHS MAY NOT EVEN GET ABOVE ZERO
FOR NORTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA...WITH LOW TEMPERATURES WELL INTO THE
TEENS AND MAYBE EVEN 20S BELOW ZERO. VERY COLD WIND CHILLS CAN
ALSO BE EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

TMT

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.