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Wind Advisory 26, NWS Aberdeen, SD

December 16, 20258 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this wind advisory at Dec 16, 2025, 2:01 PM CST for 8 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Dec 17, 2025, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 16, 2025, 2:01 PM CST (20:01 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 17, 2025, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Dec 17, 2025, 9:00 PM CST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties 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), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 12:00Z on 2025-12-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2025-12-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 187 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2471 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
262 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
Dec 16, 2:01 PM CSTHigh Wind WatchABRBrown, Buffalo, Campbell, Codington, Corson, Deuel and 16 more12 hr
Dec 16, 2:01 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchABRClark, Day, Marshall, Roberts22 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.