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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 16, 1992Hamlin County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1992, 8:35 PM CDT for Hamlin County, South Dakota. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 1992, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 1992, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Whole counties

County Hamlin County, SD

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 300 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 409 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 13.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before

SDZ003-004-005-162215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
315 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT...

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR MOST OF NORTHCENTRAL AND
NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THIS WATCH EXTENDS EASTWARD FROM TIMBER LAKE...
30 MILES WEST OF MOBRIDGE TO THE MINNESOTA BORDER.

AT 315 PM CDT...SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN
NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WERE MOSTLY SOUTH OF US HIWAY 12. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES
SOUTH OF ABERDEEN NEAR WARNER. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND
CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE
LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATTER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

GILLESPIE

Local storm report, Jun 16, 4:21 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
420 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992

STORM DATA FOR TUESDAY JUNE 16 1992

 TIME            COUNTY..LOCATION           CHARACTER OF STORM..DAMAGE
.......................................................................

 352 PM CDT     BROWN...ABERDEEN           PEA SIZE HAIL...NWS OBSVR
 410 PM CDT     BROWN...ABERDEEN           3/4 INCH HAIL COVERING
                                           PARKING LOT AT KKAA.

GILLESPIE

Local storm report, Jun 16, 6:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Spink	60 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.