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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 21, 2015Dewey County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2015, 9:27 PM MDT for Dewey County, South Dakota. It was in force for 48 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 21, 2015, 9:27 PM MDT (03:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 2015, 10:15 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Possible
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
70.0 mph

County Dewey County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 180 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:30 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 21, 2:23 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2015-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 495 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2015-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
495 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1751 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
5.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 8:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson39 min
Jun 21, 9:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, McPherson52 min
Jun 21, 10:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Edmunds, McPherson42 min
Jun 21, 10:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Edmunds, McPherson46 min
Jun 21, 11:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown47 min
Jun 21, 11:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson55 min
Jun 21, 11:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Day38 min
Jun 22, 12:02 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, McPherson23 min
Jun 22, 12:04 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey41 min
Jun 22, 12:15 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, Corson, Walworth45 min
Jun 22, 12:25 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRJones, Lyman50 min
Jun 22, 12:30 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDay, Grant, Roberts45 min
Jun 22, 12:44 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey, Potter, Walworth46 min
Jun 22, 12:57 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, McPherson, Walworth44 min
Jun 22, 1:05 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Lyman40 min
Jun 22, 1:13 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCodington, Day, Grant, Roberts47 min
Jun 22, 1:16 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds, Faulk, Potter, Walworth44 min
Jun 22, 1:20 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes, Jones, Lyman, Stanley, Sully40 min
Jun 22, 1:22 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCodington, Day, Grant, Roberts53 min
Jun 22, 1:38 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRLyman37 min
Jun 22, 1:54 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRJones, Lyman66 min
Jun 22, 1:58 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABRBrown47 min
Jun 22, 2:00 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Hand, Hughes, Hyde, Lyman, Stanley45 min
Jun 22, 2:18 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Hughes, Lyman57 min
Jun 22, 2:31 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark, Day, Faulk, Hand, Spink44 min
Jun 22, 2:37 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Hand, Hughes, Hyde, Lyman, Sully53 min
Jun 22, 3:33 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark, Codington, Hamlin, Spink42 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.