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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Aberdeen, SD

April 10, 201310 counties in South Dakota; Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this winter storm warning at Apr 10, 2013, 9:25 AM CDT for 10 counties in South Dakota; Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota. It took effect at Apr 10, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 18 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 10, 2013, 9:25 AM CDT (14:25 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 10, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired
Apr 11, 2013, 1:09 PM CDT
In force
18 hr
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Big Stone County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Brown County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Marshall County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Spink County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:26 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 2013-04-10Temperature 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 2013-04-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 169 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
1140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
294 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Apr 10, 6:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 6:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 10, 4:10 AM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
410 AM CDT WED APR 10 2013

MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-110915-
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-
410 AM CDT WED APR 10 2013 /310 AM MDT WED APR 10 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

LOW PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO PIVOT OVER THE CENTRAL
PLAINS...SPREADING SNOW INTO THE DAKOTAS. WHILE THE MAIN FOCUS HAS
BEEN IN WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA OVERNIGHT...THIS AREA WILL TRANSITION
EAST TODAY. SNOW IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE SIGNIFICANT...BUT WILL ADD
SOME LIGHT ACCUMULATION TO THE AREA. MORE SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL
WILL DEVELOP THIS EVENING ALONG THE I29 CORRIDOR AND CONTINUE
OVERNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

LIGHT SNOW WILL CONTINUE OVER MOST OF THE AREA...SLOWLY TRANSITION
EAST THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

CONNELLY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 10, 9:25 AM CDTWinter Weather AdvisoryABRBrown, Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson, Marshall28 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in South Dakota, 2013Winter Storm Warnings in Minnesota, 2013Every winter storm 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.