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Special Weather Statement, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 9, 2015Grant County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this special weather statement at Jun 9, 2015, 3:16 PM CDT for Grant County, South Dakota. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 2015, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2015, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD

County Grant County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 107 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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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 9, 12:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 12:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 4:06 AM CDT, 11 hours 10 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

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 3:16 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
316 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 2015

SDZ008-011-020-021-092100-
CODINGTON SD-GRANT SD-DAY SD-ROBERTS SD-
316 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN GRANT...SOUTHEASTERN
DAY...NORTHEASTERN CODINGTON AND SOUTHERN ROBERTS COUNTIES UNTIL 400
PM CDT...

AT 316 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8
MILES SOUTHEAST OF BITTER LAKE...OR 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WEBSTER...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SOUTH SHORE...WAVERLY...STOCKHOLM...TWIN BROOKS...TROY AND MARVIN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 4516 9733 4532 9721 4524 9667 4497 9690
TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 297DEG 30KT 4521 9718

FOWLE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Hughes, Hyde, Lyman	30 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

Special Weather Statements in South Dakota, 2015 Every special weather statement 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.