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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Aberdeen, SD

May 15, 1996Sully County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1996, 3:35 AM CDT for Sully County, South Dakota. It was in force for 45 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 15, 1996, 3:35 AM CDT (08:35 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1996, 4:20 AM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Sully County, SD

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 138 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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds32 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.