Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2016
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2016, 2:45 PM CDT for Day County, South Dakota. It was in force for 30 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 14, 2016, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2016, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Observed
- Hail
- 0.0 in
County Day County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 907 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
048
WFUS53 KABR 141945
TORABR
SDC037-142015-
/O.NEW.KABR.TO.W.0005.160614T1945Z-160614T2015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
245 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL DAY COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...
* UNTIL 315 PM CDT
* AT 244 PM CDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6
MILES WEST OF WEBSTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO.
SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS CONFIRMED TORNADO.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
DAMAGE IS LIKELY.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
ROSLYN AROUND 300 PM CDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A
BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY
BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A MOBILE HOME...OR IN
A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4534 9757 4537 9767 4557 9757 4551 9737
TIME...MOT...LOC 1944Z 208DEG 24KT 4541 9757
TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...0.00IN
$$
SERR1 follow-up statement
740
WWUS53 KABR 141958
SVSABR
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
258 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016
SDC037-142015-
/O.CON.KABR.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-160614T2015Z/
DAY SD-
258 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL DAY COUNTY...
AT 258 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR ROSLYN...OR 13 MILES NORTH OF WEBSTER...MOVING NORTH
AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
NORTH CENTRAL DAY COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER
AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4550 9743 4542 9755 4545 9763 4557 9757
4552 9741
TIME...MOT...LOC 1958Z 196DEG 27KT 4553 9756
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
SERRThe office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Day, Marshall | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Day, Grant, Roberts | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Grant, Roberts | 30 min |
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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.