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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 20, 1995Faulk County, South Dakota

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1995-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1090 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 1995-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRPotter36 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.