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Wind Advisory 14, NWS Aberdeen, SD

May 20, 20248 counties in South Dakota; Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this wind advisory at May 20, 2024, 1:52 PM CDT for 8 counties in South Dakota; Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota. It took effect at May 21, 2024, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 20, 2024, 1:52 PM CDT (18:52 UTC)
In effect from: May 21, 2024, 11:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 21, 2024, 9:23 PM CDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Big Stone County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Marshall County, SD, Roberts County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 275 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: 685 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 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 May 20, 12:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 20, 12:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 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
May 19, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABR	Corson, Dewey	39 min
May 19, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABR	Dewey	47 min
May 19, 7:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Dewey, Hughes, Potter, Stanley, Sully	26 min
May 19, 7:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Corson	23 min
May 19, 7:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Potter	35 min
May 19, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABR	Campbell, Corson	44 min
May 19, 7:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Campbell, Corson	22 min
May 19, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk, Hand, Hyde, Potter	46 min
May 19, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	47 min
May 19, 8:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Buffalo, Faulk, Hand	39 min
May 19, 8:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Corson	34 min
May 19, 9:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Buffalo, Hand, Spink	37 min
May 19, 11:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Roberts	30 min

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.