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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 21, 1986Lake County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1986, 5:43 PM CDT for Lake County, South Dakota. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1986, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1986, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Lake 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 295 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 1986-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 318 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1986-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 89 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
318 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.8

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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

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 12:41 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 1:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
140 PM CDT SAT JUN 21 1986

AT 130 PM CDT...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH
HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED OVER NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHEAST
NORTH DAKOTA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A 25 MILE
WIDE LINE FROM NEAR FARGO NORTH DAKOTA TO 15 MILES NORTH OF HURON
SOUTH DAKOTA. ALTHOUGH THESE STORMS HAD WEAKENED...HEAVY RAIN AND
STRONG WIND IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THE LINE.

THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

ALSO...NUMEROUS LIGHT RAINSHOWERS HAD DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL SOUTH
DAKOTA. THE SHOWERS WERE IN A 10 MILE WIDE AREA FROM 35 MILES SOUTH
WEST OF ABERDEEN TO 45 MILES yWEST OF HURON.

THE MOVEMENT OF THESE SHOWERS HAD NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED.

SPRINGER

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.