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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Aberdeen, SD

August 25, 1990Hughes County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 1990, 8:04 PM CDT for Hughes County, South Dakota. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 25, 1990, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 1990, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Hughes 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 1990-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4027 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1990-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
4027 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
7.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHON 260104
TORHON
SDC065-260130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 
804 PM CDT SAT AUG 25 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF SOUTH DAKOTA
      EASTERN HUGHES

SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE DEBRAY

AT 800 PM CDT  RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
OVER EASTERN HUGHES COUNTY.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER
IF ONE IS AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED
BUILDING OR A LOW AREA.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes, Sully54 min
Aug 25, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSully63 min
Aug 25, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds67 min
Aug 25, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes, Hyde68 min
Aug 25, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds31 min
Aug 25, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRLyman52 min
Aug 25, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk, Spink41 min
Aug 25, 9:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Day33 min
Aug 25, 9:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell57 min
Aug 25, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand, Hyde62 min
Aug 25, 9:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCodington, Hamlin68 min
Aug 25, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDay36 min
Aug 25, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHyde63 min
Aug 25, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, McPherson25 min
Aug 26, 2:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson62 min
Aug 26, 2:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson, Dewey66 min
Aug 26, 3:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, Walworth56 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.