Alert archive / South Dakota / Blizzard Warnings in 2024
Blizzard Warning 1, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this blizzard warning at Mar 24, 2024, 4:10 AM CDT for Buffalo County, Lyman County, South Dakota. It took effect at Mar 25, 2024, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 19 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
- Mar 24, 2024, 4:10 AM CDT (09:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 25, 2024, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2024, 7:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
Counties Buffalo County, SD, Lyman County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 135 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.