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Wind Chill Warning 5, NWS Aberdeen, SD

January 25, 2022Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this wind chill warning at Jan 25, 2022, 3:15 PM CST for Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota. It was in force for 15 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 25, 2022, 3:15 PM CST (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Jan 26, 2022, 6:00 AM CST
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Big Stone County, MN, Traverse County, MN

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 1019 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill 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 wind chill warning went out at Jan 24, 5:29 PM CST, 21 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 5:29 PM CST, 21 hours 46 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
Jan 25, 2:53 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	ABR	Brown, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, McPherson and 2 more	27 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Warnings in Minnesota, 2022 Every wind chill warning in 2022

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.