Alert archive / South Dakota / Excessive Heat Warnings in 2016
Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 19, 2016, 3:35 AM CDT for 26 counties in South Dakota; Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota. It took effect at Jul 19, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 days. 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 19, 2016, 3:35 AM CDT (08:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 19, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 days
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
All 28 counties
Big Stone County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Brown County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Corson County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Potter County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Spink County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:40 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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2034 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this excessive heat 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 excessive heat warning went out at Jul 19, 12:50 AM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 12:50 AM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 7:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Clark | 45 min |
Nearby
Excessive Heat Warnings in South Dakota, 2016Excessive Heat Warnings in Minnesota, 2016Every excessive heat warning in 2016
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.