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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this high wind watch at Oct 19, 2025, 1:14 PM MDT for 4 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Oct 20, 2025, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 19, 2025, 1:14 PM MDT (19:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 20, 2025, 9:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 20, 2025, 2:28 AM MDT
- In force
- 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 19:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 218 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Oct 19, 11:45 AM MDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 19, 11:45 AM MDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 1:14 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds and 12 more | 41 hr |
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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.