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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Aberdeen, SD

August 29, 1993Faulk County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 1993, 8:34 PM CDT for Faulk County, South Dakota. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 29, 1993, 8:34 PM CDT (01:34 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 1993, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Faulk County, SD

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 62 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 1993-08-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2588 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1993-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 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
2588 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
866 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.9

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRMcPherson55 min
Aug 29, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHyde, Sully64 min
Aug 29, 9:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown46 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.