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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 11, 1990Kingsbury County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1990, 9:53 PM CDT for Kingsbury County, South Dakota. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1990, 9:53 PM CDT (02:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1990, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 1990-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2064 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 1990-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2064 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1789 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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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, Jun 11, 9:28 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD                                            925 PM CDT MON JUN 11 1990

STORM DATA FOR 11 JUN 1990

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

 533 PM MDT     CORSON 7WNW MOBRIDGE.      TORNADO.
 650 PM CDT     WALWORTH...MOBRIDGE.       WIND GUST TO 60 MPH.
 715 PM CDT     POTTER...LEBANON.          WIND GUST 50 MPH. HEAVY RAIN
 808 PM CDT     BROWN...10W WARNER.        WIND GUST 60 MPH.
 809 PM CDT     EDMUNDS...MINA.            WIND GUST 60 MPH.
 810 PM CDT     FAULK...4 W CHELSEA.       WIND GUST 65 MPH. ZERO VIS.
 815 PM CDT     MCPHERSON...5W LONG
                LAKE.                      WIND GUST OF UNKNOWN SPEED
                                           TREE LIMBS 12 TO 14 INCHES
                                           THICK BROKEN. SOME TREES
                                           UPROOTED.
 840 PM CDT     BROWN...6N RICHMOND
                LAKE.                      WIND GUST 60 MPH.
 850 PM CDT     BROWN...8NE RICHMOND
                LAKE.                      WIND GUST 65 MPH.
 855 PM CDT     BROWN...5SW HECLA.         WIND GUST 55 TO 60 MPH.
 900 PM CDT     BROWN...3W HOUGHTON.       WIND GUST 55 TO 60 MPH.
 900 PM CDT     FAULK...FAULKTON.          50 MPH WIND WITH VERY
                                           HEAVY RAIN AND ALL FIELDS
                                           WITH STANDING WATER.

                                                

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRJones37 min
Jun 11, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk69 min
Jun 11, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRLyman31 min
Jun 11, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds61 min
Jun 11, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Lyman61 min
Jun 11, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown69 min
Jun 11, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown59 min
Jun 11, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRJerauld33 min
Jun 11, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBeadle35 min
Jun 11, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRMiner30 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.