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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 18, 1990Hyde County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1990, 10:53 AM CDT for Hyde County, South Dakota. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 18, 1990, 10:53 AM CDT (15:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 1990, 11:30 AM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Hyde 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 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 12:00Z on 1990-07-18Temperature 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1990-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
2240 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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
Jul 18, 10:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSully27 min
Jul 18, 12:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk55 min
Jul 18, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSpink56 min
Jul 18, 2:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark51 min
Jul 18, 3:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark, Hamlin66 min
Jul 18, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes, Stanley63 min
Jul 18, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSanborn67 min
Jul 18, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk, Potter59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1990Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.