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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Aberdeen, SD

January 14, 201416 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this high wind watch at Jan 14, 2014, 2:58 PM CST for 16 counties in South Dakota. 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, 3:52 AM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Buffalo County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Potter County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 120 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 2014-01-14Temperature 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 2014-01-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind 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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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 14, 2:58 PM CSTBlizzard WatchABRBrown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant and 4 more13 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in South Dakota, 2014Every high wind 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.