Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2014
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Sep 30, 2014, 6:40 PM CDT for Day County, South Dakota. It was in force for 17 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
- Sep 30, 2014, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 2014, 6:57 PM CDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Day County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this tornado warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
184
WFUS53 KABR 302340
TORABR
SDC037-010015-
/O.NEW.KABR.TO.W.0018.140930T2340Z-141001T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
640 PM CDT TUE SEP 30 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WESTERN DAY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 638 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BUTLER...OR 15 MILES WEST OF WEBSTER...
MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
PIERPONT AROUND 700 PM CDT.
THIS WARNING INCLUDES HIGHWAY 12 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 320 AND 335.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4559 9786 4559 9761 4518 9768 4521 9793
TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 187DEG 41KT 4529 9780
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
SERR1 follow-up statement
206 WWUS53 KABR 302357 SVSABR SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 657 PM CDT TUE SEP 30 2014 SDC037-010007- /O.CAN.KABR.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-141001T0015Z/ DAY SD- 657 PM CDT TUE SEP 30 2014 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN DAY COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. LAT...LON 4559 9786 4559 9761 4518 9768 4521 9793 TIME...MOT...LOC 2357Z 187DEG 41KT 4547 9777 $$ SERR
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Sep 30, 3:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 3:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
341 PM CDT TUE SEP 30 2014
.SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT
STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE AREA AND ITS ASSOCIATED SURFACE
LOW PRESSURE AREA WILL LIFT NORTH INTO SOUTHERN CANADA OVERNIGHT.
STARTING TO SHOW GOOD CU DEVELOPMENT IN THE DRY SLOT LATE THIS
AFTERNOON OVER CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL SD. THIS MAY BE THE
BEGINNINGS OF THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE NORTHWARD MOVING
DRY LINE. SURFACE BASED CAPE HAS RISEN TO 500 TO 1000 J/KG IN A
NARROW RIBBON IN ADVANCE OF THIS DRY LINE. DEEP LAYER SHEAR
REMAINS HIGH ACROSS THE REGION. THUS...SEVERE STORMS COULD STILL
OCCUR INTO THE EARLY EVENING. ALSO...EXPECT STRONG SOUTH TO
SOUTHEAST WINDS TO CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY AND EVENTUALLY BECOME
SOUTHWEST WITH CLEARING SKIES OVERNIGHT. SURFACE HIGH
PRESSURE...MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES AND LESS WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE
EXPECTED ACROSS THE REGION ON WEDNESDAY. THE MODELS SHOW TWO MORE
SHORT WAVE TROUGHS MOVING ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THURSDAY
NIGHT. THE FIRST SHORT WAVE WILL REMAIN SOUTH OF OUR REGION
BRINGING ONLY SOME CLOUD COVER TO OUR AREA. THE NEXT STRONGER
SHORT WAVE WILL DROP INTO THE REGION FOR THURSDAY AND THURSDAY
NIGHT. THIS MAY BRING SOME SHOWERS TO THE FAR EASTERN CWA.
OTHERWISE...A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL FOLLOW IN BEHIND BRINGING
SOME WINDY CONDITIONS FOR THURSDAY NIGHT.
.LONG TERM...FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY
COOLER AIR MOVES IN BEHIND AN EXITING TROUGH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.
IN FACT...BY SATURDAY MORNING LOW TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO BE
IN THE LOW 30S...AND DEPENDING ON THE LOCATION OF THE SURFACE
RIDGE...AND DECOUPLING OF WINDS...TEMPERATURES MAY EVEN DROP TO
COLDER VALUES...WHICH COULD BE NEARING THE HARD FREEZE CATEGORY.
WITH THE COOLER AIR...STEEP LAPSE RATES AND LINGERING UPPER LEVEL
ENERGY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SHOWERS THROUGH THE
WEEKEND...BUT MAINLY ACROSS THE EASTERN CWA. NORTHWEST FLOW THEN
TAKES HOLD FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK. PERHAPS SOME WEAK ENERGY MOVING
THROUGH THE NORTHWEST FLOW...BUT KEPT THE FORECAST MAINLY DRY FOR
NOW.
&&
.AVIATION...
18Z TAFS FOR THE KABR...KATY...KPIR AND KMBG TERMINALS
A STRONG AND QUICK MOVING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL SLIDE ACROSS
THE REGION TODAY...WITH A SLOT OF DRY AIR BEING WRAPPED INTO THE LOW.
MVFR/IFR CIGS AHEAD OF THE DRY SLOT WILL CLEAR BRIEFLY AS THE DRY
AIR TAKES OVER. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE THEN POSSIBLE FOR AREAS
THAT RECEIVE ENOUGH SUNSHINE UNDER THE AREA OF CLEARING...MAINLY
BETWEEN 20Z-03Z TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL CLOUD COVER MOVES IN BEHIND
THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM BEFORE THE WHOLE SYSTEM EXITS TONIGHT.
GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE OVERNIGHT...AND WILL
SHIFT TO THE WEST NORTHWEST ON WEDNESDAY.
&&
.ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT /6 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING FOR HUGHES-
JONES-LYMAN-STANLEY-SULLY.
MN...NONE.
&&
SHORT TERM...MOHR
LONG TERM...SERR
AVIATION...SERR
WEATHER.GOV/ABERDEENHazardous weather outlook, Sep 30, 4:13 AM CDT, 14 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 413 AM CDT TUE SEP 30 2014 MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-036-037-051-010915- TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-BROWN-MARSHALL- ROBERTS-WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DAY-DEWEY-POTTER-FAULK-SPINK-CLARK- CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN-DEUEL-HYDE-HAND-BUFFALO- 413 AM CDT TUE SEP 30 2014 /313 AM MDT TUE SEP 30 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 A POWERFUL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE FAST MOVING SEVERE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON. LOCATIONS ALONG AND EAST OF THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY WILL HAVE THE BEST POTENTIAL OF SEEING SEVERE STORMS. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS...AND POSSIBLY ISOLATED TORNADOES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION COULD BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND EAST OF THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY. SDZ033>035-045-048-010915- STANLEY-SULLY-HUGHES-JONES-LYMAN- 413 AM CDT TUE SEP 30 2014 /313 AM MDT TUE SEP 30 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS EXCEEDING 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED TODAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE HOWEVER SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 30, 5:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
505 PM CDT TUE SEP 30 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0445 PM TORNADO 3 NW LONG LAKE 45.89N 99.25W
09/30/2014 MCPHERSON SD TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
EVENT NUMBER ABR1400680
KGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 3:33 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ABR | Hughes, Jones, Lyman, Stanley, Sully | 15 hr |
| Sep 30, 4:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | McPherson | 28 min |
| Sep 30, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Edmunds, McPherson | 52 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.