Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2014, 9:39 AM CDT for Campbell County, Corson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 66 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
- Aug 4, 2014, 9:39 AM CDT (14:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2014, 10:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:38 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
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 1231 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 4, 6:18 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 6:18 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 618 AM CDT MON AUG 4 2014 .UPDATE... SEE UPDATED AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW. && .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SHORTWAVE ENERGY CURRENTLY TRACKING SOUTHEAST OVER THE WESTERN DAKOTAS...WITH AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN PART OF THE CWA. WILL SEE A BIT OF A LULL IN THE ACTION AROUND MIDDAY AND INTO THE AFTERNOON AS THE WAVE SLIDES SOUTH OF THE AREA. WILL THEN SEE BETTER CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION RETURN TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT AS SURFACE LOW PRESSURE CURRENTLY WEST OF THE REGION TRACKS OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND MORE SHORTWAVE ENERGY RIDES OVER THE TOP OF THE DAMPENING RIDGE. CANNOT RULE OUT A SEVERE STORM OR TWO TUESDAY NIGHT AS DECENT SHEAR WILL BE IN PLACE...BUT INSTABILITY LOOKS TO BE MINIMAL...SO NOT EXPECTING WIDESPREAD SEVERE. FOR NOW...WILL KEEP SMALL POPS IN ON WEDNESDAY...BUT THE MODELS ARE BEGINNING TO COME INTO AGREEMENT WITH HIGH PRESSURE DROPPING SOUTHWARD OVER THE EASTERN DAKOTAS DURING THAT TIME...WHICH MAY RESULT IN DRY OR DRYING CONDITIONS. WILL SEE JUST SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES ACROSS MOST OF THE CWA TODAY...WITH HIGHS FROM AROUND 80 DEGREES ACROSS THE NORTHEAST TO AROUND 90 OVER THE SOUTHWEST. WILL THEN SEE HIGHS MAINLY IN THE 70S TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY A GENERALLY WEAK MID LEVEL FLOW PATTERN WILL BE IN PLACE OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS FOR THE LONG TERM FORECAST. EMBEDDED ENERGY WILL STILL PROVIDE FOR SOME CHANCES OF CONVECTION DESPITE MAIN BAROCLINIC ZONE BEING WEST AND SOUTH OF THE ABR CWA THROUGH MUCH OF THE PERIOD. POPS ARE THEREFORE BROAD BRUSH DUE TO LITTLE CONFIDENCE IN ANY ONE MODEL SOLUTION. TEMPERATURES SHOULD AVERAGE NEAR TO SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL BUT TREND WARMER AGAIN BY THE WEEKEND. && .AVIATION... 12Z TAFS FOR THE KABR...KATY...KPIR AND KMBG TERMINALS AFTER PATCHY MORNING FOG AND LOW CLOUDS...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL FOR MOST OF THE PERIOD...EXCEPT FOR PERHAPS IN THUNDERSTORMS. SOME ACTIVITY MOVING SOUTHEAST OVER NORTH DAKOTA MAY AFFECT KABR THIS MORNING...BUT THE MAIN FOCUS WILL BE LATER TODAY AND TNT FOR KMBG/KPIR AS SOME SHOWERS/STORMS MOVE OFF THE HIGH PLAINS. && .ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. && UPDATE...TDK SHORT TERM...PARKIN LONG TERM...TDK AVIATION...TDK WEATHER.GOV/ABERDEEN
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 4:33 AM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 433 AM CDT MON AUG 4 2014 MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-050945- 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- 433 AM CDT MON AUG 4 2014 /333 AM MDT MON AUG 4 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 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF THE COUNTY WARNING AREA TODAY...THEN ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA TONIGHT. AT THIS TIME...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PERIOD...WITH THE BEST CHANCES OCCURRING TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE TUESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. PARKIN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 9:17 AM CDT, 22 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 9:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Campbell | 43 min |
| Aug 4, 10:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Corson | 63 min |
| Aug 4, 10:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Corson, Walworth | 61 min |
| Aug 4, 11:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Walworth | 58 min |
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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.