Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2015, 5:33 PM CDT for Brown County, Edmunds County, McPherson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 27 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 27, 2015, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2015, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Brown County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, McPherson County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 1706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 27, 3:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 1:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 152 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2015 MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-037-281900- TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-BROWN-MARSHALL- ROBERTS-WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DAY-DEWEY-POTTER-FAULK-SPINK-CLARK- CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN-DEUEL-HAND- 152 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 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...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND PERSIST INTO THE EVENING HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE STRONG TO SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE OVER FAR NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA INTO WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA EARLY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS RETURN TO THE FORECAST FOR THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM AROUND THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY AND POINTS EASTWARD INTO WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. SDZ033>036-045-048-051-281900- STANLEY-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-JONES-LYMAN-BUFFALO- 152 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS RETURN TO THE FORECAST FOR THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. TMT/SERR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, McPherson | 38 min |
| Jun 27, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Stanley, Sully | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Edmunds, McPherson, Spink | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 6:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Spink | 40 min |
| Jun 27, 6:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Spink | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 6:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Stanley | 44 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.