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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Aberdeen, SD

August 8, 20255 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2025, 4:01 AM CDT for 5 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 8, 2025, 4:01 AM CDT (09:01 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2025, 4:29 AM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Faulk County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Sully County, SD

The radar

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 8, 1:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier. Its key messages:

  • Two scenarios for today. Warm air aloft keeps us capped. The other option, if we get convection, is for either an isolated storm through during the morning hours along the SD/ND state line, or a stronger storm or two late afternoon/evening (30-45%) mainly in far northeastern SD/west central MN.
  • There is a slight risk (level 2 out of 5) for highway 281 and points east. Marginal risk (1 of 5) elsewhere. Hail/high winds are the primary threat. Isolated tornado risk is focused in western Minnesota.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 1:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Aberdeen SD
158 AM CDT Fri Aug 8 2025

.KEY MESSAGES...

- Two scenarios for today. Warm air aloft keeps us capped. The other
option, if we get convection, is for either an isolated storm
through during the morning hours along the SD/ND state line, or a
stronger storm or two late afternoon/evening (30-45%) mainly in far
northeastern SD/west central MN.

- There is a slight risk (level 2 out of 5) for highway 281 and
points east. Marginal risk (1 of 5) elsewhere. Hail/high winds are
the primary threat. Isolated tornado risk is focused in western
Minnesota.

&&

.DISCUSSION...
Issued at 157 AM CDT Fri Aug 8 2025

A line of storms have set up from Hettinger all the way northeast to
Devils lake proceeding to the east. the south end of this line is
encountering very warm air loft, with 700 temperatures running at
approximately 15 to 16 Celsius. That is between one to two standard
deviations above climatology. This strong cap is situated above a
layer of Stratus. Thus the main concern going forward is the impact
of these stable boundary layer conditions on future convective
initiation. convective allowing models seem to have a very good
grasp of these conditions and are limiting convection across much of
the cwa through the course of the late morning and into the
afternoon hours, with a few indicating cells penetrating into south
dakota before dissipating. there are some hints in these convective
allowing models that some of the better chances for elevated
convection sets up across the far northeast later this morning ahead
of the warmest air aloft. A surface boundary will then provide the
focus for re-developmant as it moves across the area through the
daylight hours and judging by BUFKIT profiles we have a very tenuous
ability to breach the cap with this feature on our northern
periphery. That said steep lapse rates aloft Will enhance the severe
weather potential for any storms that do manage, with NAM/HREF
MLCAPE > 4000j/kg... but if we look at BUFKIT this would probably be
closer to 3000-35000j/kg elevated CAPE since its generated from the
top of the inversion with the passage of the boundary. Shear is
quite good for severe weather as well, at about 40kts with strong
mid-level southwesterlies this evening. Overnight with warm
advection and enhancing low level flow with decoupling, elevated
convection could get going in the far northeast and western
minnesota prior to midnight before moving out of the cwa.

Once the front moves through we'll see cold air advection tonight
with the core of coldest air aloft moving through Sunday. The HRRR
and RUC Currently do not run far enough, However smoke aloft and
near surface situated just west of the area by the end of these runs
will be a concern for the weekend and into next week as the source
region is out of Canada. The northwest flow regime degrades on
Tuesday with a zonal/wobbly pattern for the rest of the extended.
Its about that time of year where this fetch Would generate less
convective activity and as such NBM pops are too low for a mention
of storms until we get into late in the work week.

&&

.AVIATION /06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z FRIDAY/...
Issued at 1218 AM CDT Fri Aug 8 2025

Terminals KABR,KATY,KPIR,KMBG

MVFR CIGS in KABR/KATY will persist, and develop into KMBG
through the early morning hours. CIGS may drop to IFR at some
point in the morning for KABR/KATY terminals as well. Otherwise,
tracking convection up in North Dakota currently could impact the
KMBG terminal but not a high enough probability of occurrence for
including in KABR TAF. Later this afternoon, convective
redevelopment is more probable for KABR/KATY. Will also see a wind
shift from SE/E to NW with the passage of a front through the
afternoon/evening.

&&

.ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...None.
MN...None.
&&

DISCUSSION...07
AVIATION...07
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 1:18 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRCorson72 min
Aug 8, 2:24 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRCampbell, McPherson, Walworth66 min
Aug 8, 2:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, McPherson, Potter and 1 more63 min
Aug 8, 3:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Edmunds, Faulk, Hand, Hyde, McPherson and 5 more46 min
Aug 8, 4:19 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRDay, Faulk, Marshall, Spink26 min
Aug 8, 5:07 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRClark, Codington, Grant, Spink23 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.