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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 24, 1994Beadle County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1994, 5:02 PM CDT for Beadle County, South Dakota. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1994, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1994, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Beadle County, SD

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 55 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 12:00Z on 1994-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 27 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 12:00Z on 1994-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-347 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Jun 24, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBeadle51 min
Jun 24, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDay63 min
Jun 24, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBeadle66 min
Jun 24, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark63 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.