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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Aberdeen, SD

September 3, 1990Faulk County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 1990, 2:03 AM CDT for Faulk County, South Dakota. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 3, 1990, 2:03 AM CDT (07:03 UTC)
Expired
Sep 3, 1990, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Faulk 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 62 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 1990-09-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 916 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 1990-09-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
916 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1271 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.8

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 3, 1:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRPotter, Walworth40 min
Sep 3, 1:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds55 min
Sep 3, 1:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSpink52 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.