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Special Weather Statement, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2014, 1:49 PM CDT for Roberts County, South Dakota. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2014, 1:49 PM CDT (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2014, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
County Roberts County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 282 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
- 127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1361 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 3, 12:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 12:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 4:19 AM CDT, 9 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 419 AM CDT SUN AUG 3 2014 MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-040930- 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- 419 AM CDT SUN AUG 3 2014 /319 AM MDT SUN AUG 3 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 ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD...WITH THE BEST CHANCE COMING TUESDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. PARKIN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 1:49 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 149 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2014 SDZ008-031915- ROBERTS- 149 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2014 ...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WESTERN ROBERTS COUNTY UNTIL 215 PM CDT... AT 147 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RUDEBUSCH CORNER...OR 14 MILES SOUTH OF SISSETON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORMS WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE ADVISED COUNTY.. SMALL HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. && LAT...LON 4558 9697 4540 9697 4541 9722 4558 9723 TIME...MOT...LOC 1849Z 272DEG 18KT 4547 9711 TMT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 5:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Brown | 26 min |
| Aug 3, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Brown | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown | 39 min |
Nearby
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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.