Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Aberdeen, SD

May 14, 1996Edmunds County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1996, 10:28 PM CDT for Edmunds County, South Dakota. It was in force for 32 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
May 14, 1996, 10:28 PM CDT (03:28 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1996, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Edmunds County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:29 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 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 86 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 1996-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 521 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 1996-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 150 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
521 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
891 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KABR 150327
SVRABR
SDC045-150400-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
1028 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN SD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA

   ...EDMUNDS COUNTY
 
AT 1025 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY ABERDEEN
DOPPLER RADAR 42 MILES NORTHEAST OF GETTYSBURG OR 3 MILES NORTHWEST
OF ROSCOE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 29 MPH.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO REACH...
ROSCOE                              AROUND 1033 PM CDT
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS HAIL 3/4 INCH OR LARGER AND/OR
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH HAVE BEEN INDICATED BY RADAR OR HAVE BEEN
REPORTED. SEEK SHELTER INDOORS WHEN STORMS APPROACH. IF A BUILDING
IS NOT AVAILABLE...A FULLY ENCLOSED AUTOMOBILE WILL PROVIDE
LIGHTNING PROTECTION.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 3:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSully45 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.