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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 11, 1990Miner County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1990, 10:15 PM CDT for Miner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 1990, 10:15 PM CDT (03:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 1990, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 30 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 11, 10:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60	Miner, SD

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 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-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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KHON 120315
SVRHON
SDC097-120345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 
1015 PM CDT MON JUN 11 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF SOUTH DAKOTA
      MINER

SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE CARTHAGE...
ARGONNE...FEDORA...ROSWELL...VILAS AND HOWARD

AT 1010 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST
OF CARTHAGE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM..YOU SHOULD GET TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES ANY OR ALL OF THE FOLL^OWING...
WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH OR HIGHER...HAIL 3/4 INCH OR LARGER...DEADLY
LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS RAPIDLY.

STOREY

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, 47 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Jones	37 min
Jun 11, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk	69 min
Jun 11, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Lyman	31 min
Jun 11, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Edmunds	61 min
Jun 11, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Lyman	61 min
Jun 11, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown	69 min
Jun 11, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown	59 min
Jun 11, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Jerauld	33 min
Jun 11, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Beadle	35 min
Jun 11, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Kingsbury	37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1990 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.