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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Aberdeen, SD

May 23, 1994Roberts County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1994, 7:05 PM CDT for Roberts County, South Dakota. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 1994, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 1994, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Whole counties

County Roberts County, SD

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 1212 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2117 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

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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, May 23, 5:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 23, 6:10 PM CDT, 55 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
May 23, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Roberts	63 min
May 23, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Day, Marshall	24 min
May 23, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown	34 min
May 23, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Marshall	57 min
May 23, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Roberts	47 min
May 23, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Day	30 min
May 23, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Grant	32 min
May 23, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Day	48 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.