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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 6, 1986Buffalo County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1986, 8:02 PM CDT for Buffalo County, South Dakota. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1986, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1986, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Buffalo County, SD

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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 00:00Z on 1986-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1880 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1986-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 177 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1880 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
996 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.1
Supercell composite
10.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 7:12 PM CDTTornado WarningABREdmunds33 min
Jun 6, 7:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand, Hyde58 min
Jun 6, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningABREdmunds39 min
Jun 6, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Spink57 min
Jun 6, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDewey33 min
Jun 6, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBeadle, Clark64 min
Jun 6, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRKingsbury, Miner, Sanborn62 min

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.