Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2015, 8:14 AM CDT for Jones County, Lyman County, South Dakota. It was in force for 32 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 25, 2015, 8:14 AM CDT (13:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2015, 8:46 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:14 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2141 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 Jul 25, 6:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 6:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 25, 3:54 AM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 354 AM CDT SAT JUL 25 2015 MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-260900- 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- 354 AM CDT SAT JUL 25 2015 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 SCATTERED STORMS WILL AFFECT THE REGION THIS MORNING BUT THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LOW UNTIL LATER THIS AFTERNOON. HIGH WINDS AND HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY OFF AND ON CHANCES FOR STORMS EXISTS INTO THE START OF NEXT WEEK. SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL APPEARS LOW AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. CONNELLY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 47 min |
| Jul 25, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 51 min |
| Jul 25, 1:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Walworth | 41 min |
| Jul 25, 7:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Jones, Stanley | 51 min |
| Jul 25, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, McPherson | 45 min |
| Jul 25, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | McPherson | 58 min |
| Jul 25, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey, Potter, Walworth | 28 min |
| Jul 25, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | McPherson | 49 min |
| Jul 25, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | McPherson | 26 min |
| Jul 25, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Faulk, Potter, Walworth | 51 min |
| Jul 25, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Faulk, Potter, Walworth | 49 min |
| Jul 25, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Faulk, Hand, Hyde, Potter | 67 min |
| Jul 25, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Edmunds, Faulk, Hand, Spink | 60 min |
| Jul 25, 6:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Potter | 44 min |
| Jul 25, 6:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Faulk, Potter | 6 hr |
| Jul 25, 6:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 6 hr |
| Jul 25, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Clark, Day, Spink | 59 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.