Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1995, 4:04 PM CDT for Faulk County, South Dakota. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 1995, 4:04 PM CDT (21:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Faulk County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1090 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KABR 202104 RRA SVRABR SDC049-202145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 404 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT (345 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA ...WESTERN FAULK COUNTY AT 358 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY ABERDEEN DOPPLER RADAR 19 MILES EAST OF GETTYSBURG OR 1 MILE WEST OF SENECA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 32 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH... ONAKA BY 416 PM CDT MILLARD BY 432 PM CDT NORBECK BY 432 PM CDT WECOTA BY 440 PM 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. & MOHR
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 20, 12:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
SDZ003>005-009-010-015>017-201915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 1212 PM CDT (1112 AM MDT) TUE JUN 20 1995 ....SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE A POSSIBILITY THIS AFTERNOON IN NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. AT NOON CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF DUPREE TO 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PIERRE AND WERE MOVING NORTH TO NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO VERY WARM AND MOIST AIR AND COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MOHR
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 3:39 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
SDZ003>007-009>011-015>018-202235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 337 PM CDT (237 PM MDT) TUE JUN 20 1995 ....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF CORSON...CAMPBELL...DEWEY...WALWORTH...POTTER IN NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA THE WATCH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF MCPHERSON...EDMUNDS...FAULK...BROWN...SPINK... MARSHALL AND DAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS NORTHEAST AND NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. SEVERE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS... AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST WEATHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS THROUGH THE EVENING. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER. MOHR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Potter | 36 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.