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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 27, 2026Jones County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2026, 9:04 PM CDT for Jones County, South Dakota. It was in force for 56 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: Jun 27, 2026, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2026, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Jones County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:04 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
Jun 27, 4:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	11 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 312 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1476 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 953 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 27, 8:16 PM CDT, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 8:16 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Dewey, Stanley	42 min
Jun 27, 9:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Stanley	34 min
Jun 27, 9:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Dewey, Sully	35 min
Jun 27, 10:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Hughes	45 min
Jun 27, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	23 min
Jun 27, 10:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Jones	31 min
Jun 27, 10:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Hughes, Potter, Walworth	45 min
Jun 27, 11:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABR	Hughes, Stanley	107 min
Jun 27, 11:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson	41 min
Jun 27, 11:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Hand, Hyde	46 min
Jun 27, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Edmunds, McPherson	48 min
Jun 28, 12:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown, Edmunds, Faulk, Hand, Spink	36 min
Jun 28, 12:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Brown	52 min
Jun 28, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown, Edmunds	41 min
Jun 28, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown, Clark, Day, Spink	45 min
Jun 28, 1:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Marshall	29 min
Jun 28, 1:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Clark, Day	50 min
Jun 28, 11:40 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	ABR	Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin, Roberts	32 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.