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Special Weather Statement, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 12, 2016Corson County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this special weather statement at Jun 12, 2016, 3:13 AM MDT for Corson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 47 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 12, 2016, 3:13 AM MDT (09:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2016, 4:00 AM MDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD

County Corson County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 1574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 597 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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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 11, 11:38 PM MDT, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 11:38 PM MDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 3:03 AM MDT, 10 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
403 AM CDT SUN JUN 12 2016

MNZ039-046-SDZ006>008-011-018>023-130915-
TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-BROWN-MARSHALL-ROBERTS-DAY-SPINK-CLARK-
CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN-DEUEL-
403 AM CDT SUN JUN 12 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL
MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON ALONG A COLD FRONT.
SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. SEVERE
STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAYBE NEED THIS AFTERNOON.

SDZ003>005-009-010-015>017-033>037-045-048-051-130915-
CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DEWEY-POTTER-FAULK-
STANLEY-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-HAND-JONES-LYMAN-BUFFALO-
403 AM CDT SUN JUN 12 2016 /303 AM MDT SUN JUN 12 2016/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS MORNING ALONG A COLD FRONT.
SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME STRONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND
GUSTY WINDS POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. SEVERE
STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

SD

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 3:13 AM MDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
313 AM MDT SUN JUN 12 2016

SDZ003-015-121000-
CORSON SD-DEWEY SD-
313 AM MDT SUN JUN 12 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN DEWEY...NORTHWESTERN
CAMPBELL AND EASTERN CORSON COUNTIES UNTIL 400 AM MDT...

AT 312 AM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES WEST OF GRAND RIVER CASINO...OR 11 MILES WEST OF MOBRIDGE...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MCLAUGHLIN...WAKPALA...LITTLE EAGLE...KENEL AND MAHTO.

LAT...LON 4594 10050 4587 10039 4583 10038 4546 10060
      4557 10092 4594 10088
TIME...MOT...LOC 0912Z 208DEG 32KT 4558 10066

SD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 3:49 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Dewey	56 min
Jun 12, 3:54 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Stanley	66 min
Jun 12, 4:01 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Jones, Stanley	59 min
Jun 12, 4:06 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Campbell	39 min
Jun 12, 4:16 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Campbell, Corson	8 min
Jun 12, 4:49 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Campbell, Walworth	56 min
Jun 12, 4:55 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Dewey, Potter, Walworth	28 min
Jun 12, 5:03 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Stanley, Sully	72 min
Jun 12, 5:46 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Campbell, Walworth	59 min
Jun 12, 6:16 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Stanley	44 min
Jun 12, 1:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Roberts	48 min
Jun 12, 1:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Roberts	63 min
Jun 12, 2:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Big Stone	43 min
Jun 12, 2:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	37 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.