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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 188, NWS Aberdeen, SD

August 18, 2018Corson County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2018, 7:49 PM MDT for Corson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 18, 2018, 7:49 PM MDT (01:49 UTC)
Expired
Aug 18, 2018, 8:15 PM MDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Corson County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2018-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1886 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2018-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 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
1886 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2042 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 18, 6:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABRJones31 min
Aug 18, 7:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABRStanley35 min
Aug 18, 8:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABRCorson44 min
Aug 18, 8:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABRCampbell48 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.