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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 7, 1993Hamlin County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1993, 5:32 PM CDT for Hamlin County, South Dakota. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 1993, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 1993, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Whole counties

County Hamlin County, SD

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 372 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 509 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

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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 7, 2:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

SDZ003-004-072145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
248 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993

...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH
   DAKOTA...

AT 245 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN PARTS
OF POTTER AND FAULK COUNTIES OF NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA.

THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHEAST OF LEBANON...OR 15
MILES SOUTHEAST OF GETTYSBURG. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...ALONG WITH
SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PEOPLE IN POTTER AND FAULK COUNTIES
SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF NECESSARY.

NIELSEN

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 2:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

SDZ003-004-072145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
248 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993

...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH
   DAKOTA...

AT 245 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN PARTS
OF POTTER AND FAULK COUNTIES OF NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA.

THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHEAST OF LEBANON...OR 15
MILES SOUTHEAST OF GETTYSBURG. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...ALONG WITH
SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PEOPLE IN POTTER AND FAULK COUNTIES
SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF NECESSARY.

NIELSEN

Local storm report, Jun 7, 4:55 PM CDT, 37 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 7, 3:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Jones, Lyman	53 min
Jun 7, 4:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Hyde, Lyman	45 min
Jun 7, 4:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes	45 min
Jun 7, 6:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Beadle	51 min
Jun 7, 8:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Codington	49 min
Jun 7, 1:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Buffalo	28 min
Jun 7, 3:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Beadle	37 min
Jun 7, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Brown, Spink	26 min
Jun 7, 4:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Kingsbury	35 min

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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.