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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 1, 1990Miner County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1990, 10:52 PM CDT for Miner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 1990, 10:52 PM CDT (03:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1990, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Miner 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 1990-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1812 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 1990-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 139 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
1812 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
6.4

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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 1, 5:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
SDZ004-012300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
510 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 10 PM CDT...

AT 505 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
NEAR BOWDLE...60 MILES WEST OF ABERDEEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH. AS THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND GUSTY
WIND.

IF YOU LIVE IN EDMUNDS COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA YOU SHOULD BE ALERT TO
RAP&IDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER
IF NECCESSARY.

KEEFE
Local storm report, Jun 1, 6:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
605 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990

STORM DATA FOR JUN 1 1990

 TIME            COUNTY..LOCATION           CHARACTER OF STORM..DAMAGE
.......................................................................

 455 PM CDT     DEWEY...2 E ISABEL         TORNADO...NO DAMAGE REPORTED
 530 PM CDT     EDMUNDS...3 W ROSCOE       PEA SIZE HAIL
 545 PM CDT     WALWORTH...SELBY           2.60 INCHES RAIN
 545 PM CDT ?    DEWEY...6 E ISABEL         3.0 INCHES RAIN

 KEEFE
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 7:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
SDZ004-020140-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
740 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 10 PM CDT...

AT 735 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
NEAR LEBANON...50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MOBRIDGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH.

AT 735 PM CDT THE POTTER COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH
AND PEA SIZE HAIL IN LEBANON. THIS STORM IS ALSO PRODUCING VERY HEAVY
RAIN WHICH COULD CAUSE FLOODING IN LOW AREAS...DONT CROSS FLOODED ROADS.

IF YOU LIVE IN POTTER COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

KEEFE
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 8:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
SDZ004-020215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
815 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 3 AM CDT SATURDAY...

AT 800 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
NEAR NORBECK...40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ABERDEEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH. THIS IS PART OF AN INTENSIFYING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDS
SOUTH INTO NEBRASKA.

AS THIS LINE MOVES ACROSS NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA YOU CAN EXPECT SMALL
HAIL...STRONG WIND...AND HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN CAUSE ROADS TO WASH OUT.

IF YOU LIVE IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

KEEFE

Local storm report, Jun 1, 9:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
905 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990

STORM DATA FOR JUN 1 1990

 TIME            COUNTY..LOCATION           CHARACTER OF STORM..DAMAGE
.......................................................................

 600 PM CDT     MCPHERSON...20 E EUREKA    3/4 INCH HAIL FOR 7 MINUTES.
 850 PM CDT     EDMUNDS...5 S IPSWICH      3/4 INCH HAIL
 855 PM CDT     EDMUNDS...1 S IPSWICH      50 MPH WIND PEA SIZE HAIL

 KEEFE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRLyman59 min
Jun 1, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Lyman65 min
Jun 1, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds37 min
Jun 1, 9:01 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBeadle, Hand, Jerauld29 min
Jun 1, 9:14 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown, Spink31 min
Jun 1, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBeadle, Sanborn62 min
Jun 1, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Spink25 min
Jun 1, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark, Kingsbury60 min
Jun 1, 10:02 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown, Day, Spink28 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.