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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Aberdeen, SD

February 24, 20254 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this high wind warning at Feb 24, 2025, 1:23 PM MST for 4 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 4 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
Feb 24, 2025, 1:23 PM MST (20:23 UTC)
Expired
Feb 24, 2025, 5:00 PM MST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Jones County, SD, Stanley County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 195 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 12:00Z on 2025-02-24Temperature 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2025-02-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -41 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 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
Feb 24, 1:02 AM MSTWind AdvisoryABRBuffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk and 10 more16 hr
Feb 24, 1:58 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementABRClark32 min
Feb 24, 3:30 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementABRDeuel30 min

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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.