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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 19, 2014Roberts County, South Dakota; Traverse County, Minnesota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2014, 12:08 AM CDT for Roberts County, South Dakota; Traverse County, Minnesota. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 2014, 12:08 AM CDT (05:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Traverse County, MN, Roberts County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 159 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 00:00Z on 2014-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 138 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2014-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 124 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
138 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-319 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1569 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 8:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRMcPherson42 min
Jul 18, 11:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRRoberts51 min
Jul 19, 12:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRRoberts51 min
Jul 19, 1:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRGrant, Roberts63 min
Jul 19, 2:13 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRGrant32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2014Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2014Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.