Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT for Spink County, South Dakota. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1995, 6:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Spink County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 6 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
- 347 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 952 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jul 3, 4:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
SDZ003>011-015>018-040340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 438 PM CDT (338 PM MDT) MON JUL 3 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... THE AIRMASS OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA HAS BECOME VERY UNSTABLE AHEAD OF AN ADVANCING STRONG UPPER LEVEL AREA OF LOW PRESSURE. THIS WILL ALLOW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AT 430 PM...THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LANGTREE ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF DUPREE. OTHERWISE...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE WESTERN END OF CORSON AND DEWEY COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. BOATERS ARE URGED TO MOVE ONTO SHORE QUICKLY AND SEEK REFUGE IN A BUILDING. CAMPERS WITHOUT BUILDINGS AVAILABLE SHOULD MOVE FROM TENTS INTO FULLY ENCLOSED AUTOMOBILES...IF POSSIBLE... FOR LIGHTNING PROTECTION. GUERRERO/MIDDLEBROOKE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Marshall, Roberts | 46 min |
| Jul 3, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Clark | 50 min |
| Jul 3, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 61 min |
| Jul 3, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Clark | 40 min |
| Jul 3, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Corson | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Spink | 62 min |
| Jul 3, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Walworth | 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.