Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 18, 1993Stanley County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1993, 7:29 AM MDT for Stanley County, South Dakota. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 18, 1993, 7:29 AM MDT (13:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 1993, 8:15 AM MDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Stanley County, SD

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 262 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1993-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 41 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1993-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
41 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
873 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 7:55 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes, Sully65 min
Jul 18, 10:22 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSpink48 min
Jul 18, 3:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRWalworth43 min
Jul 18, 5:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSully9 min
Jul 18, 5:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown49 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.