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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Aberdeen, SD

March 15, 202412 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this red flag warning at Mar 15, 2024, 2:54 AM CDT for 12 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Mar 15, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 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 15, 2024, 2:54 AM CDT (07:54 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 15, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Mar 15, 2024, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Brown County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Hughes County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Potter County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:59 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 123 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2024-03-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2024-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1310 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 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
Mar 15, 3:51 PM CDTFire Weather WatchABRClark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 1 more11 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in South Dakota, 2024Every red flag warning in 2024

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.