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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 25, 1986Beadle County, Kingsbury County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1986, 9:09 PM CDT for Beadle County, Kingsbury County, South Dakota. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 1986, 9:09 PM CDT (02:09 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1986, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Whole counties

Counties Beadle County, SD, Kingsbury 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 70 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: 1525 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 25, 4:23 PM CDT, 4 hours 46 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
Jul 25, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Beadle	55 min
Jul 26, 12:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Kingsbury, Miner	38 min
Jul 26, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Jerauld, Sanborn	48 min
Jul 26, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	55 min
Jul 26, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson, Dewey	56 min
Jul 26, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Walworth	63 min
Jul 26, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Dewey	57 min
Jul 26, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Jerauld, Sanborn	66 min
Jul 26, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Walworth	60 min
Jul 26, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes, Stanley	69 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1986 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.