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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Aberdeen, SD

April 23, 2022Campbell County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2022, 1:48 AM CDT for Campbell County, South Dakota. It was in force for 42 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: Apr 23, 2022, 1:48 AM CDT (06:48 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2022, 2:30 AM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Campbell County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 573 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 345 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Apr 23, 12:33 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 12:33 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 22, 3:24 AM CDT, 22 hours 24 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Aberdeen SD
324 AM CDT Fri Apr 22 2022

MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-230830-
Traverse-Big Stone-Corson-Campbell-McPherson-Brown-Marshall-Roberts-
Walworth-Edmunds-Day-Dewey-Potter-Faulk-Spink-Clark-Codington-Grant-
Hamlin-Deuel-Stanley-Sully-Hughes-Hyde-Hand-Jones-Lyman-Buffalo-
324 AM CDT Fri Apr 22 2022 /224 AM MDT Fri Apr 22 2022/

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for west central Minnesota,
central South Dakota, north central South Dakota and northeast
South Dakota.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Severe thunderstorms are possible late this afternoon through
tonight. All threats are possible.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday.

As the storm system moves east through the weekend, north central SD,
specifically Corson county, could experience poor visibility in
strong, gusty winds and falling snow. Other areas will see breezy and
gusty winds increase on Saturday out of the southwest then
strengthen further on Sunday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 22, 11:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 23, 12:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 23, 12:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 23, 1:07 AM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 1:34 AM CDT, 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand	31 min
Apr 22, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Hand	45 min
Apr 22, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand, Hyde	38 min
Apr 22, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand	48 min
Apr 22, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Dewey, Stanley	47 min
Apr 22, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand, Spink	40 min
Apr 22, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABR	Dewey	46 min
Apr 22, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand, Spink	41 min
Apr 22, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Spink	33 min
Apr 22, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk, Hand, Spink	44 min
Apr 22, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk, Hand, Spink	31 min
Apr 22, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown, Spink	18 min
Apr 22, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk, Hand, Spink	48 min
Apr 22, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson, Dewey	37 min
Apr 23, 12:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABR	Brown, Edmunds, Faulk, Spink	43 min
Apr 23, 1:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Dewey	26 min
Apr 23, 1:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Campbell	33 min
Apr 23, 2:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Dewey	26 min
Apr 23, 2:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Stanley	50 min
Apr 23, 3:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Brown	38 min
Apr 23, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Roberts	24 min
Apr 23, 1:24 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	ABR	Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant and 4 more	6 hr
Apr 23, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Marshall, Roberts	16 min
Apr 23, 2:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Edmunds, McPherson	25 min
Apr 23, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Campbell, Corson	15 min
Apr 23, 3:47 PM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Corson, Dewey	15 hr
Apr 23, 3:49 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ABR	Clark, Codington, Corson, Day, Deuel, Dewey and 4 more	27 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.