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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 16, 19904 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1990, 4:43 PM CDT for 4 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 1990, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1990, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Beadle County, SD, Hand County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Sanborn 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

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 350 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1990-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1990-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Jun 16, 1:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRJones58 min
Jun 16, 2:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRLyman64 min
Jun 16, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo59 min
Jun 16, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRKingsbury, Miner64 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.