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Wind Chill Advisory 6, NWS Aberdeen, SD

December 12, 201619 counties in South Dakota; Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this wind chill advisory at Dec 12, 2016, 3:50 PM CST for 19 counties in South Dakota; Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota. It took effect at Dec 12, 2016, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 12, 2016, 3:50 PM CST (21:50 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 12, 2016, 9:00 PM CST
Expired: Dec 13, 2016, 9:53 AM CST
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD

All 21 counties

Big Stone County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Brown 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, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Potter County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Spink County, SD, Walworth County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 42 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: 1015 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Dec 11, 5:19 PM CST, 22 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 11, 5:19 PM CST, 22 hours 31 minutes before

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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.