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Blowing Dust Warning 2, NWS Aberdeen, SD

May 12, 2025Hand County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this blowing dust warning at May 12, 2025, 10:54 AM CDT for Hand County, South Dakota. It was in force for 10 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: May 12, 2025, 10:54 AM CDT (15:54 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2025, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD

County Hand County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this blowing dust warning 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 blowing dust warning went out at May 11, 6:44 PM CDT, 16 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 11, 6:44 PM CDT, 16 hours 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 11, 3:07 PM CDT, 19 hours 47 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 11, 9:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Corson	27 min
May 11, 10:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Corson	34 min
May 12, 1:53 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	ABR	Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant and 4 more	14 hr

Nearby

Blowing Dust Warnings in South Dakota, 2025 Every blowing dust warning in 2025

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.