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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 4, 1994Beadle County, Hand County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1994, 9:13 PM CDT for Beadle County, Hand County, South Dakota. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 1994, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1994, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Whole counties

Counties Beadle County, SD, Hand County, SD

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 50 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: 2609 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1236 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 9.1

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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 4, 3:20 PM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before

SDZ003>005-009-010-015-016-042215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
320 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 1994

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 9 PM CDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
UNTIL 9 PM CDT. AT 315 PM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED
IN NORTHERN CORSON COUNTY BETWEEN MCINTOSH AND MCLAUGHLIN...OR ABOUT
30 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOBRIDGE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND
TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

NIELSEN

Special weather statement, Jun 4, 3:24 PM CDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before

SDZ003>005-009-010-015-016-042215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
320 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 1994

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 9 PM CDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
UNTIL 9 PM CDT. AT 315 PM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED
IN NORTHERN CORSON COUNTY BETWEEN MCINTOSH AND MCLAUGHLIN...OR ABOUT
30 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOBRIDGE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND
TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

NIELSEN

Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
810 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 1994

STORM DATA FOR SATURDAY JUN 4 1994

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

 755 PM CDT     FAULK...CRESBARD           3/4 TO 1 INCH HAIL COVERED
                                           THE GROUND. FAULK COUNTY
                                           SHERIFF

 NIELSEN

Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
810 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 1994

STORM DATA FOR SATURDAY JUN 4 1994

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

 755 PM CDT     FAULK...CRESBARD           3/4 TO 1 INCH HAIL COVERED
                                           THE GROUND. FAULK COUNTY
                                           SHERIFF

 NIELSEN

Special weather statement, Jun 4, 9:00 PM CDT, 13 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 4, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand, Hyde	52 min
Jun 4, 7:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Hand, Hyde	28 min
Jun 4, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk	61 min
Jun 4, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Hand, Hyde	25 min
Jun 4, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Hand	25 min
Jun 4, 8:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Hand	29 min
Jun 4, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Beadle	60 min
Jun 4, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Sanborn	51 min
Jun 4, 11:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABR	Codington, Hamlin	6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1994 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.