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Wind Advisory 20, NWS Aberdeen, SD

October 4, 20258 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this wind advisory at Oct 4, 2025, 9:31 PM CDT for 8 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 4, 2025, 9:31 PM CDT (02:31 UTC)
Expired
Oct 5, 2025, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
17 hr
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Brown County, SD, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Roberts County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 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 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 86 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 00:00Z on 2025-10-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 630 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2025-10-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
630 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-220 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1976 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
312 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
Oct 4, 9:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRJones24 min
Oct 4, 9:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRStanley52 min
Oct 4, 9:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementABRJones33 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.