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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Aberdeen, SD

May 30, 2014Hand County, Hyde County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2014, 5:33 PM CDT for Hand County, Hyde County, South Dakota. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 2014, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2014, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Observed
Hail: 1.0 in

Counties Hand County, SD, Hyde County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 30, 5:35 PM CDT	TORNADO	7 Nw Ree Heights, SD	SLOW MOVING TORNADO IN OPEN COUNTRY NO DAMAGE NOTED CORRECTED FOR TIME OF EVENT

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 75 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 348 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -163 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1265 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

015 
WFUS53 KABR 302233
TORABR
SDC059-069-302300-
/O.NEW.KABR.TO.W.0004.140530T2233Z-140530T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
533 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL HAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...
  EAST CENTRAL HYDE COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 532 PM CDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF REE HEIGHTS...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF HIGHMORE...MOVING NORTH AT
  15 MPH.

  HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

  SOURCE...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT CONFIRMED TORNADO.

  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.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EAST CENTRAL HYDE AND
  WEST CENTRAL HAND COUNTIES.

THIS WARNING INCLUDES HIGHWAY 14 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 283 AND 288.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. 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 4476 9929 4467 9907 4449 9927 4457 9946
TIME...MOT...LOC 2233Z 194DEG 13KT 4460 9929

TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$
CONNELLY

1 follow-up statement

892 
WWUS53 KABR 302259
SVSABR

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
559 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 2014

SDC059-069-302309-
/O.EXP.KABR.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-140530T2300Z/
HYDE SD-HAND SD-
559 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL HAND AND EAST CENTRAL HYDE
COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 600 PM CDT/500 PM MDT/...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
 HOWEVER...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE
WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 4476 9929 4467 9907 4449 9927 4457 9946
TIME...MOT...LOC 2259Z 194DEG 13KT 4469 9926

$$
SERR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown, Edmunds, McPherson	23 min
May 30, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Edmunds	30 min
May 30, 3:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABR	Edmunds	6 hr
May 30, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk	50 min
May 30, 4:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABR	Edmunds, Faulk, Hand	6 hr
May 30, 6:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABR	Hand, Hughes, Hyde, Sully	6 hr

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.