Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 9, 1995Spink County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1995, 11:38 PM CDT for Spink County, South Dakota. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 1995, 11:38 PM CDT (04:38 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1995, 12:25 AM CDT
In force
47 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 04:39 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 00:00Z, 4.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1995-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1363 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 156 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1363 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 12:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSpink62 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.