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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 373

June 27, 201729 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 27, 2017, 7:35 PM CDT for 29 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 2017, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2017, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2.5 in
Strongest gust expected
65 kt
All 29 counties

Aurora County, SD, Bon Homme County, SD, Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clay County, SD, Davison County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lake County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, Lyman County, SD, McCook County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Turner County, SD, Union County, SD, Yankton County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 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.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
10%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
50%
Ten or more severe hail reports
60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
80%

Warnings issued inside it

8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRJones, Stanley53 min
Jun 27, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey, Hughes, Stanley, Sully46 min
Jun 27, 10:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix, Davison, Douglas, Hutchinson51 min
Jun 27, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDTurner, Yankton45 min
Jun 27, 11:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln, Minnehaha43 min
Jun 27, 11:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln, Turner53 min
Jun 27, 11:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix, Douglas, Hutchinson41 min
Jun 27, 11:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln, Turner43 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 150 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2017-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2017-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2355 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
304 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 7:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAurora, Beadle, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix, Davison and 18 more88 min
Jun 27, 8:12 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGregory, Jackson, Jones, Lyman, Mellette, Todd and 1 more93 min
Jun 28, 3:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButte, Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Oglala Lakota, Pennington2 hr

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.