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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Aberdeen, SD

January 15, 202616 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this wind advisory at Jan 15, 2026, 2:39 AM CST for 16 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Jan 15, 2026, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 15, 2026, 2:39 AM CST (08:39 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 15, 2026, 11:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 16, 2026, 12:00 AM CST
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Buffalo County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Potter County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:40 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1484 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 92 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 309 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jan 14, 11:40 PM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 14, 11:40 PM CST, 2 hours 59 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
Jan 15, 11:24 AM CST	High Wind Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk and 10 more	31 hr
Jan 15, 1:29 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 20 more	35 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.