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High Wind Warning 2, NWS Aberdeen, SD

December 18, 202410 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this high wind warning at Dec 18, 2024, 2:05 PM CST for 10 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Dec 19, 2024, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 12 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
Dec 18, 2024, 2:05 PM CST (20:05 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 19, 2024, 3:00 AM CST
Expired
Dec 19, 2024, 2:36 PM CST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Potter County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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 nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 215 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2024-12-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2024-12-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 18, 2:46 AM CSTHigh Wind WatchABRCorson, Dewey11 hr
Dec 18, 2:05 PM CSTWind AdvisoryABRBrown, Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds and 12 more28 hr
Dec 18, 2:14 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryABRClark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 2 more28 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.