Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 1995, 2:16 AM CDT for Brown County, Spink County, South Dakota. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 1995, 2:16 AM CDT (07:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 1995, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brown County, SD, Spink County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 41 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABR 110718 RRA SVRABR SDC013-115-110815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 216 AM CDT FRI AUG 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA ...SOUTHERN BROWN COUNTY ...SPINK COUNTY AT 212 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY ABERDEEN DOPPLER RADAR 27 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ABERDEEN OR 17 MILES WEST OF NORTHVILLE MOVING EAST AT 49 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH... NORTHVILLE AROUND 234 AM CDT MANSFIELD AROUND 234 AM CDT MELLETTE AROUND 239 AM CDT WARNER AROUND 239 AM CDT ABERDEEN AROUND 245 AM CDT BRENTFORD AROUND 248 AM CDT BATH AROUND 253 AM CDT PUTNEY AROUND 256 AM CDT HUTTERVILLE COLONY AROUND 256 AM CDT TACOMA PARK AROUND 300 AM CDT VERDON CONDE STRATFORD FERNEY AROUND 301 AM CDT TURTON AROUND 303 AM CDT GROTON AROUND 305 AM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL 3/4 INCH OR LARGER...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY... YOURSELF AND YOUR PROPERTY. HG/MM
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, Aug 11, 1:07 AM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
MNZ046-SDZ003>011-015>018-110910- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 107 AM CDT (1207 AM MDT) FRI AUG 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 7 AM CDT (6 AM MDT) FOR ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA EXCEPT FOR WESTERN CORSON COUNTY. IN ADDITION...WESTERN BIG STONE COUNTY OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA IS INCLUDED IN THE WATCH. CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH INCLUDE LA PLANT...MOBRIDGE...GETTYSBURG...FAULKTON...ABERDEEN...REDFIELD AND SISSETON. IF YOU ARE IN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA...WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MIDDLEBROOKE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 43 min |
| Aug 11, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Faulk, Potter, Walworth | 33 min |
| Aug 11, 1:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown | 49 min |
| Aug 11, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Faulk | 34 min |
| Aug 11, 3:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Roberts | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.