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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2025, 3:47 PM CDT for 5 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 43 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
- Jul 4, 2025, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2025, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Brown County, SD, Day County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Spink County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 1647 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1472 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 2:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | McPherson | 33 min |
| Jul 4, 2:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Hyde | 52 min |
| Jul 4, 3:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Brown | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand, Hyde | 31 min |
| Jul 4, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, Marshall, Spink | 27 min |
| Jul 4, 4:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Day, Marshall, Spink | 25 min |
| Jul 4, 4:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Brown, Edmunds | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 5:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Day, Marshall | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 6:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Roberts | 34 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.