Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1996, 3:33 PM CDT for McPherson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 47 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 31, 1996, 3:33 PM CDT (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1996, 4:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County McPherson County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Special weather statement, May 31, 10:47 AM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-MNZ039-046-011200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 1045 AM CDT FRI MAY 31 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE TODAY AND THIS EVENING... A COLD FRONT IN THE WESTERN DAKOTAS WILL DRIFT EAST ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON... AND MOVE INTO EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE BY LATE AFTERNOON...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS SHOULD END OVERNIGHT AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES EAST INTO MINNESOTA. 6 EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE SKYWARN ACTIVATION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MIDDLEBROOKE
Special weather statement, May 31, 3:13 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
SDZ003>005-009-010-015>017-033>036-010215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 313 PM CDT (213 PM MDT) FRI MAY 31 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT (8 PM MDT)... IN NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...THE WATCH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF CAMPBELL...CORSON...DEWEY...EDMUNDS...FAULK...MCPHERSON...POTTER... AND WALWORTH. IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA THE AFFECTED COUNTIES INCLUDE HUGHES...HYDE...STANLEY AND SULLY. COMMUNITIES IN THE WATCH INCLUDE TIMBER LAKE...MCINTOSH... MOBRIDGE...PIERRE...GETTYSBURG...IPSWICH...LEOLA AND FAULKTON. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. BE ON THE ALBERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER...AND LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MIDDLEBROOKE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Dewey | 43 min |
| May 31, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Dewey | 45 min |
| May 31, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Corson | 48 min |
| May 31, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell | 64 min |
| May 31, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 50 min |
| May 31, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown | 45 min |
| May 31, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | McPherson | 46 min |
| May 31, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Brown, Edmunds, McPherson | 32 min |
| May 31, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Brown | 45 min |
| May 31, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, McPherson | 32 min |
| May 31, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Marshall | 63 min |
| May 31, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown | 65 min |
| May 31, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Brown | 49 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.