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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 9, 20154 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2015, 6:29 PM CDT for 4 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 30 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: Jun 9, 2015, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2015, 6:59 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Buffalo County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Lyman County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 9, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2409 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 9, 6:26 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 6:26 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 4:06 AM CDT, 14 hours 23 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
406 AM CDT TUE JUN 9 2015

MNZ039-046-SDZ006>008-011-017>023-034>037-051-100915-
TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-BROWN-MARSHALL-ROBERTS-DAY-FAULK-SPINK-CLARK-
CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN-DEUEL-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-HAND-BUFFALO-
406 AM CDT TUE JUN 9 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

VERY HOT TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TODAY. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY BETWEEN 3 PM
AND 7 PM CDT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND
SMALL HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY
EVENING. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

SDZ003>005-009-010-015-016-033-045-048-100915-
CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DEWEY-POTTER-STANLEY-
JONES-LYMAN-
406 AM CDT TUE JUN 9 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL SOUTH
DAKOTA AND NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

VERY HOT TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TODAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY
EVENING. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON.

SD

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 3:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
358 PM CDT TUE JUN 09 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0335 PM     TSTM WND GST     7 S SUMMIT              45.20N  97.05W
06/09/2015  E60 MPH          GRANT              SD   PUBLIC

            ALSO HAD DIME SIZE HAIL WITH SMALL TREE BRANCHES BLOWN
            DOWN

&&

EVENT NUMBER ABR1500345

VIPOND

Local storm report, Jun 9, 4:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
400 PM CDT TUE JUN 09 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0335 PM     TSTM WND GST     8 NW SOUTH SHORE        45.18N  97.04W
06/09/2015  E60 MPH          GRANT              SD   PUBLIC

            ALSO HAD DIME SIZE HAIL WITH SMALL TREE BRANCHES BLOWN
            DOWN

&&

CORRECTED LOCATION

EVENT NUMBER ABR1500345

VIPOND

Local storm report, Jun 9, 4:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
407 PM CDT TUE JUN 09 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0335 PM     HAIL             7 S SUMMIT              45.20N  97.05W
06/09/2015  E0.88 INCH       GRANT              SD   PUBLIC

            HAIL LASTED ABOUT 5 MINUTES WITH ESTIMATED WIND SPEEDS
            BETWEEN 40-50 MPH... NO DAMAGE NOTICEABLE

&&

EVENT NUMBER ABR1500346

VIPOND

Local storm report, Jun 9, 4:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
422 PM CDT TUE JUN 09 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0347 PM     HAIL             2 NNE SOUTH SHORE       45.13N  96.92W
06/09/2015  E1.25 INCH       CODINGTON          SD   PUBLIC

            ESTIMATED WIND GUSTS AROUND 50 MPH... HAIL BROKE A
            BEDROOM WINDOW... SOME VEGETABLE PLANTS FLATTENED

&&

EVENT NUMBER ABR1500347

VIPOND

Local storm report, Jun 9, 4:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 4:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Grant	44 min
Jun 9, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Codington, Deuel, Grant	51 min
Jun 9, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Codington, Deuel, Grant	66 min
Jun 9, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Clark, Hamlin, Spink	53 min
Jun 9, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Deuel, Grant	23 min
Jun 9, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Jones, Lyman, Stanley	26 min
Jun 9, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Traverse	17 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2015 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015

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.