An isolated severe thunderstorm produced a quick tornado along with damaging winds and large hail.
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An isolated severe thunderstorm produced a quick tornado along with damaging winds and large hail.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 25, 6:37 PM CST, 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 737 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2013 .UPDATE... TROF AXIS SITS BETWEEN ABERDEEN AND MOBRIDGE. ABERDEEN SOUNDING SUGGEST CAP AND WEAK SHEAR WILL BE MAIN LIMITING FACTOR IN CONVECTION INTENSITY...HOWEVER A FEW CELLS HAVE STARTED TO DEVELOP ALONG HIGHWAY 83. MAIN UPDATE INCLUDES LOWERING COVERAGE OF STORMS. && .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT THE POTENTIAL OF SEVERE STORMS TONIGHT WILL BE THE MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE. A NEGATIVELY TILTED 500MB TROUGH IS MOVING ACROSS THE REGION WITH A NOTICEABLE COLD FRONT/DRY LINE DRAPED OVER WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. THIS FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY PUSH EASTWARD TONIGHT AND WILL INTERACT WITH A HIGHLY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT WHERE SURFACE DEW POINTS ARE IN THE UPPER 60S/LOWER 70S. WHILE SURFACE BASE CAPE VALUES OVER MUCH OF THE CWA CURRENTLY EXCEEDS 4500 J/KG...0-6 KM BULK SHEAR VALUES ARE VERY WEAK. 0-6 KM EFFECTIVE SHEAR IS BEGINNING TO INCREASE OVER WESTERN ND...OR WHERE CONVECTION SHOULD DEVELOP. WITH LIMITED SHEAR...BUT EXCELLENT INSTABILITY...WOULD EXPECT MULTI-CELL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP...MAINLY OVER WESTERN ND. IT REMAINS UNCLEAR AS TO WHETHER OR NOT STORMS WILL BUILD SOUTHWARD INTO THIS CWA LATER THIS EVENING AS SOME HI-RE MODELS SUGGEST. H7 TEMPERATURES ARE RATHER WARM WITH MOST OF THE CWA CURRENTLY SEEING +10C. BASED ON THE LAST FEW RUNS OF THE HRRR...PLUS SUPPORT FROM THE ARW/MNN...BELIEVE LOCATIONS ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 212 WILL SEE ISO/SCT THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING WITH HAIL BEING THE MAIN THREAT. HOWEVER WITH ABNORMALLY HIGH PWATS PLUS A SLOW STORM MOTION...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD PUSH EAST THE CWA BY 12Z WEDNESDAY WITH MOSTLY DRY AND WARM CONDITIONS EXPECTED THERE AFTER. THAT SAID...THE NAM12 HAS BEEN VERY CONSISTENT WITH BRINGING A RIDGE RIDING SHORT WAVE ACROSS THE REGION LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT/THURSDAY MID MORNING. WITH LIMITED LLM...WILL KEEP THIS TIME PERIOD DRY FOR NOW. .LONG TERM...FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY AS THE EXTENDED OPENS...NW FLOW ALOFT IS ONGOING ACROSS THE CWA. IN FACT...THE OVERALL FLOW PATTERN FORECAST OVER NOAM OVER THE WEEKEND HEADING INTO NEXT WEEK IS FOR SUCH AN AMPLIFIED AND BLOCKY PATTERN THAT CONFIDENCE IS RATHER LOW REGARDING FORECAST SENSIBLE WEATHER FIELDS. MODELS WOULD SUGGEST THAT ONE OR MORE AREAS OF LOW PRESSURE MOVING THROUGH THE AMPLIFYING UPPER FLOW PATTERN WILL EVENTUALLY BE STEERED THROUGH THE NORTHERN PLAINS/GREAT LAKES REGION BY LATE IN THE WEEKEND. THE FLOW PATTERN IS FORECAST TO INCLUDE EXTREME UPPER RIDGING ACROSS THE WESTERN CONUS AND RATHER PRONOUNCED UPPER TROFFING FOR LATE JUNE/EARLY JULY ACROSS THE EASTERN CONUS DURING THE EXTENDED PERIOD. IN FACT...THE CURRENT ITERATION OF LONG RANGE SOLUTIONS CONTINUES TO SUGGEST THE AMPLIFYING FLOW PATTERN WILL RESULT IN ONE OR MORE BACK DOOR COLD FRO-PAS IN THE OUT PERIODS...AND NEAR TO BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES AS COOLER AIRMASSES SLIP DOWN ACROSS THE REGION FROM CANADA. && .AVIATION... 00Z TAFS FOR THE KABR...KATY...KPIR AND KMBG TERMINALS VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE TAF PERIOD...OUTSIDE OF THE ODD THUNDERSTORM THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT....MAINLY FOR KMBG/KABR. A SURFACE TROF WILL ALSO DRIFT THROUGH THE AREA...SHIFTING WINDS FROM SOUTHEAST TO WEST. && .ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. && UPDATE...CONNELLY SHORT TERM...SD LONG TERM...DORN AVIATION...CONNELLY WEATHER.GOV/ABERDEEN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 452 AM CDT TUE JUN 25 2013 MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-261000- TRAVERSE-BIG STONE-CORSON-CAMPBELL-MCPHERSON-BROWN-MARSHALL- ROBERTS-WALWORTH-EDMUNDS-DAY-DEWEY-POTTER-FAULK-SPINK-CLARK- CODINGTON-GRANT-HAMLIN-DEUEL-STANLEY-SULLY-HUGHES-HYDE-HAND-JONES- LYMAN-BUFFALO- 452 AM CDT TUE JUN 25 2013 /352 AM MDT TUE JUN 25 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL/NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON THEN INTO NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA INTO EARLY EVENING. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM NORTH CENTRAL TO NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. TMT
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:00 UTC.
3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado touched down briefly in an open field with no damage reported.
A communications tower came down and landed on a vehicle causing damage.
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Every storm in South Dakota in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for South Dakota, 2013Warnings in South Dakota, June 2013
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 464519, 464509, 464504, 464502, 464513.