Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1995

Tornado Warning 5, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 16, 1995Brown County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jul 16, 1995, 3:00 PM CDT for Brown County, South Dakota. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1995, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Brown County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 77 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 1995-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 859 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 1995-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 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
859 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1008 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABR 162007 COR
TORABR
SDC013-091-162035-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTION ON LOCATION
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
300 PM CDT SUN JUL 16 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 335 PM CDT (235 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA

   ...NORTHEASTERN BROWN COUNTY
   ...MARSHALL COUNTY

AT 258 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC 22 MILES
NORTHEAST OF ABERDEEN OR 5 MILES WEST OF CLAREMONT MOVING EAST AT 28
MPH.

THE COMMUNITIES MOST THREATENED BY THIS TORNADO...
CLAREMONT                             BY 309 PM CDT

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR
ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...
PILLOWS OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.

&
BUCKLEW/SALMONS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WarningABRMarshall35 min

Nearby

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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.