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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 11, 1986Brown County, Day County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1986, 1:33 PM CDT for Brown County, Day County, South Dakota. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 1986, 1:33 PM CDT (18:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 1986, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Brown County, SD, Day 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

Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 350 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1986-07-11Temperature 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1986-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

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.