Alert archive / South Dakota / Winter Storm Warnings in 2013
Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Aberdeen, SD
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.
- 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
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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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 9:25 AM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | ABR | Brown, Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson, Marshall | 28 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.