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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 19, 1991Codington County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 1991, 4:54 PM CDT for Codington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 51 min. 2 reports 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 19, 1991, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1991, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Codington County, SD

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 19, 5:05 PM CDTTornado F0Codington, SD
Jun 19, 5:05 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55Codington, 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 1991-06-19Temperature 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 1991-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 110 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1735 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHON 192153
TORHON
SDC029-192245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
454 PM CDT WED JUN 19 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HURON SD                    HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION             ...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
 
   ...CODINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 445 PM CDT...FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE REPORTED IN NORTHWEST CODINGTON
COUNTY. AT 450 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 20 MILES WEST
NORTHWEST OF WATERTOWN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...YOU SHOULD GO TO A BASEMENT
SHELTER IF AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE GO TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES IN FAVOR OF A
REINFORCED BUILDING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown29 min
Jun 19, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDay30 min
Jun 19, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBeadle, Clark64 min
Jun 19, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRKingsbury66 min
Jun 19, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRRoberts28 min
Jun 19, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDay33 min
Jun 19, 5:43 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCodington32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.