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Wind Advisory 23, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this wind advisory at Oct 20, 2025, 2:41 PM CDT for 8 counties in South Dakota; Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota. It took effect at Oct 21, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 20, 2025, 2:41 PM CDT (19:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 21, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 21, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
Counties Big Stone County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Marshall County, SD, Roberts County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1433 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Oct 20, 12:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 20, 12:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 3:28 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | ABR | Corson, Dewey | 17 hr |
| Oct 20, 7:02 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ABR | Brown, Spink | 3 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.