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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Aberdeen, SD

September 10, 1996Hamlin County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1996, 5:09 AM CDT for Hamlin County, South Dakota. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 10, 1996, 5:09 AM CDT (10:09 UTC)
Expired
Sep 10, 1996, 5:55 AM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Hamlin County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 99 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 1996-09-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 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 1996-09-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-240 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Sep 9, 9:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRGrant46 min
Sep 10, 1:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDay44 min
Sep 10, 2:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRGrant49 min
Sep 10, 3:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBig Stone47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.