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Wind Chill Advisory 2, NWS Aberdeen, SD

January 15, 202021 counties in South Dakota; Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 15, 2020, 3:54 AM CST for 21 counties in South Dakota; Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota. It took effect at Jan 15, 2020, 4:00 AM CST. It was in force for 32 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 15, 2020, 3:54 AM CST (09:54 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 15, 2020, 4:00 AM CST
Expired
Jan 16, 2020, 12:00 PM CST
In force
32 hr
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
All 23 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, Hyde County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Potter County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Spink County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:54 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 242 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 2020-01-15Temperature 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2020-01-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 208 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
312 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
Jan 15, 2:34 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchABRBrown, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel and 10 more37 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in South Dakota, 2020Wind Chill Advisories in Minnesota, 2020Every wind chill advisory in 2020

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.