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Special Weather Statement, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this special weather statement at Jul 21, 2016, 1:56 AM CDT for Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota. It was in force for 94 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
- Jul 21, 2016, 1:56 AM CDT (06:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2016, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
Counties Big Stone County, MN, Traverse County, MN
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 3010 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Jul 21, 12:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 12:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 457 AM CDT WED JUL 20 2016 MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-211000- TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-BROWN-MARSHALL- ROBERTS-WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DAY-DEWEY-POTTER-FAULK-SPINK-CLARK- CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN-DEUEL-STANLEY-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-HAND-JONES- LYMAN-BUFFALO- 457 AM CDT WED JUL 20 2016 /357 AM MDT WED JUL 20 2016/ 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 HEAT INDICES WILL RANGE FROM 100 TO 110 DEGREES ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. THESE STORMS COULD CONTAIN HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY HEAT INDICES WILL REMAIN NEAR OR ABOVE 100 DEGREES ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE AREA THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. TMT
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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 1:56 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
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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.