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Winter Storm Warning 4, NWS Aberdeen, SD

November 27, 20259 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this winter storm warning at Nov 27, 2025, 12:52 PM MST for 9 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Nov 28, 2025, 8:00 AM MST. It was in force for 27 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 27, 2025, 12:52 PM MST (19:52 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 28, 2025, 8:00 AM MST
Expired
Nov 29, 2025, 11:00 AM MST
In force
27 hr
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Potter County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 2025-11-27Temperature 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 2025-11-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 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
763 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 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
Nov 27, 1:45 AM MSTWinter Storm WatchABRClark, Edmunds, Faulk, Hand, Hyde, Spink11 hr
Nov 27, 12:52 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryABRBrown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Day and 18 more52 hr

Nearby

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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.