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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 8, 2018Buffalo County, Lyman County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2018, 9:29 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Lyman County, South Dakota. It was in force for 46 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
Jun 8, 2018, 9:29 PM CDT (02:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2018, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.88 in
Wind
70.0 mph

Counties Buffalo County, SD, Lyman County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 8, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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 2018-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 755 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2018-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 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
755 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2119 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 8, 6:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 6:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 6:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 7:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRJones44 min
Jun 8, 7:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRSully47 min
Jun 8, 7:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRHughes44 min
Jun 8, 8:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRJones39 min
Jun 8, 8:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRHyde53 min
Jun 8, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRJones, Lyman50 min
Jun 8, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRLyman26 min
Jun 8, 9:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRBuffalo51 min
Jun 8, 9:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRHand, Hyde48 min
Jun 8, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo20 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2018Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2018

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.