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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 12, 2022Jones County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2022, 10:37 PM CDT for Jones County, South Dakota. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 12, 2022, 10:37 PM CDT (03:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2022, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 2.75 in

County Jones County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:38 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 12, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 2193 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1221 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 443 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.5
Supercell composite: 19.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

276 
WFUS53 KABR 130337
TORABR
SDC075-130400-
/O.NEW.KABR.TO.W.0021.220613T0337Z-220613T0400Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Tornado Warning
National Weather Service Aberdeen SD
1037 PM CDT Sun Jun 12 2022

The National Weather Service in Aberdeen has issued a

* Tornado Warning for...
  Southwestern Jones County in central South Dakota...

* Until 1100 PM CDT.
    
* At 1037 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a
  tornado was located near Okaton, or near Murdo, moving southeast at
  30 mph.

  HAZARD...Tornado and baseball size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.

  IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without 
           shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. 
           Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur.  Tree 
           damage is likely.

* This dangerous storm will be near...
  Murdo around 1045 PM CDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Heavy rainfall may hide this tornado. Do not wait to see or hear the
tornado. TAKE COVER NOW!

&&

LAT...LON 4391 10102 4402 10093 4395 10063 4379 10071
TIME...MOT...LOC 0337Z 293DEG 25KT 4390 10082 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...2.75 IN

$$

Lueck

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABR	Jones, Stanley	62 min
Jun 12, 9:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Jones	33 min
Jun 12, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ABR	Jones, Lyman	64 min
Jun 12, 10:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Jones	29 min
Jun 12, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ABR	Hughes, Jones, Lyman, Stanley	53 min
Jun 12, 11:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Lyman, Stanley	26 min
Jun 12, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABR	Buffalo, Hand, Hughes, Hyde, Lyman	60 min
Jun 12, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes, Hyde, Lyman, Stanley, Sully	40 min
Jun 12, 11:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABR	Jones	6 hr
Jun 13, 12:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	ABR	Buffalo, Hand, Hyde, Lyman	29 min
Jun 13, 12:26 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Hand	49 min
Jun 13, 12:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Corson	51 min
Jun 13, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Dewey	30 min
Jun 13, 1:56 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	ABR	Brown, Buffalo, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel and 12 more	4 hr
Jun 13, 2:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Clark, Codington, Hamlin, Spink	44 min
Jun 13, 2:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Walworth	42 min
Jun 13, 2:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Clark, Hamlin	32 min
Jun 13, 2:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Corson, Walworth	67 min
Jun 13, 3:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Stanley	23 min
Jun 13, 3:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABR	Hughes, Jones, Stanley	6 hr
Jun 13, 4:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Hughes, Hyde	26 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.