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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Aberdeen, SD

March 11, 20235 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this wind advisory at Mar 11, 2023, 2:19 PM CST for 5 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Mar 11, 2023, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 11, 2023, 2:19 PM CST (20:19 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 11, 2023, 6:00 PM CST
Expired: Mar 12, 2023, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Buffalo County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Stanley County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 197 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 536 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 661 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 advisory went out at Mar 11, 11:42 AM CST, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 11:42 AM CST, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 11, 12:58 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
1258 PM CST SAT MAR 11 2023

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0800 AM     SNOW             FAULKTON                45.03N 99.13W
03/11/2023  M3.0 INCH        FAULK              SD   CO-OP OBSERVER

            CO-OP OBSERVER STATION FAUS2 FAULKTON 1 NW.

&&

RV

Local storm report, Mar 11, 12:59 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
1259 PM CST SAT MAR 11 2023

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0800 AM     SNOW             2 WNW ROY LAKE STATE PA 45.72N 97.48W
03/11/2023  M4.0 INCH        MARSHALL           SD   CO-OP OBSERVER

            CO-OP OBSERVER STATION ROYS2 LAKE CITY 3 W.
            STILL SNOWING AT OBSERVATION TIME.

&&

RV

Local storm report, Mar 11, 1:04 PM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
104 PM CST SAT MAR 11 2023

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0830 AM     SNOW             SISSETON                45.67N 97.04W
03/11/2023  E2.3 INCH        ROBERTS            SD   CO-OP OBSERVER

            CO-OP OBSERVER STATION SSSS2 SISSETON. STILL
            SNOWING AT OBSERVATION TIME.

&&

RV

Local storm report, Mar 11, 1:17 PM CST, 1 hour 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
117 PM CST SAT MAR 11 2023

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1200 PM     SNOW             ABERDEEN REGIONAL AIRPO 45.45N 98.41W
03/11/2023  M2.9 INCH        BROWN              SD   OFFICIAL NWS OBS

            STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL.

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RV

Local storm report, Mar 11, 1:53 PM CST, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
153 PM CST SAT MAR 11 2023

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0700 AM     SNOW             3 NW WESTPORT           45.68N 98.53W
03/11/2023  M2.3 INCH        BROWN              SD   CO-OP OBSERVER

            CO-OP OBSERVER STATION WPTS2 WESTPORT 2 NW.
            STILL SNOWING AT OBSERVATION TIME.

&&

RV

Local storm report, Mar 11, 1:58 PM CST, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
158 PM CST SAT MAR 11 2023

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0700 AM     SNOW             2 SSW MCLAUGHLIN        45.79N 100.83W
03/11/2023  M2.5 INCH        CORSON             SD   CO-OP OBSERVER

            CO-OP OBSERVER STATION MCGS2 MCLAUGHLIN
            2SSW.

&&

RV

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 11, 8:42 AM CST	Wind Advisory	ABR	Corson, Dewey	6 hr
Mar 11, 2:16 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Brown, Campbell, Clark, Corson, Day, Dewey and 11 more	22 hr

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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.