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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 27, 1995Beadle County, Hand County, Jerauld County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 1:52 AM CDT for Beadle County, Hand County, Jerauld County, South Dakota. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 1995, 1:52 AM CDT (06:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1995, 2:45 AM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Beadle County, SD, Hand County, SD, Jerauld County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 65 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 1995-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2702 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 1995-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 139 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
2702 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1287 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
319 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.6
Supercell composite
22.4

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The text

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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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 2:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSpink57 min
Jul 27, 2:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson64 min
Jul 27, 2:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk28 min
Jul 27, 2:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell62 min
Jul 27, 3:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRMiner50 min
Jul 27, 3:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson25 min
Jul 27, 3:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRWalworth59 min
Jul 27, 4:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRKingsbury46 min
Jul 27, 4:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds, McPherson60 min
Jul 27, 4:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHamlin, Kingsbury45 min
Jul 27, 4:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk48 min
Jul 27, 5:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Spink56 min
Jul 27, 5:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds32 min
Jul 27, 5:25 AM CDTTornado WarningABRKingsbury50 min
Jul 27, 6:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Day, Spink63 min
Jul 27, 6:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark50 min
Jul 27, 6:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCodington45 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.