Alert archive / South Dakota / Blizzard Watches in 2014
Blizzard Watch 1, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this blizzard watch at Jan 14, 2014, 2:58 PM CST for 10 counties in South Dakota; Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota. It took effect at Jan 16, 2014, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 2014, 2:58 PM CST (20:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 16, 2014, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2014, 4:02 AM CST
- In force
- 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 20:57 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, 9.0 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
- 887 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this blizzard watch 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 blizzard watch went out at Jan 14, 12:06 PM CST, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 14, 12:06 PM CST, 2 hours 52 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 14, 4:23 AM CST, 10 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 423 AM CST TUE JAN 14 2014 MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-151030- 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- 423 AM CST TUE JAN 14 2014 /323 AM MST TUE JAN 14 2014/ 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 LIGHT SNOW PASSING THROUGH THE AREA WILL COMBINE WITH STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS TO PRODUCE AREAS OF REDUCED VISIBILITY THANKS TO BLOWING SNOW. GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY INTENSELY STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED FOR THURSDAY. SUSTAINED WINDS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 30 TO 45MPH...WITH GUSTS NEARING 60MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. THERE WILL ALSO BE A FEW LIGHT SNOW SHOWERS MOVING ACROSS THE AREA...WITH POCKETS OF REDUCED VISIBILITY THANKS TO FALLING/BLOWING SNOW. .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 2:58 PM CST | High Wind Watch | ABR | Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk and 10 more | 13 hr |
Nearby
Blizzard Watches in South Dakota, 2014Blizzard Watches in Minnesota, 2014Every blizzard watch in 2014
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.