Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 5, 1999Stanley County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1999, 8:27 PM MDT for Stanley County, South Dakota. It was in force for 63 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: Jun 5, 1999, 8:27 PM MDT (02:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1999, 9:30 PM MDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Whole counties

County Stanley County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 5, 8:00 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 193 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 724 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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.

NWS Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 5, 8:15 PM MDT, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 8:15 PM MDT, 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 2:54 PM MDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  ABERDEEN SD
354 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0930 PM    MURDO                     SD   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/04/99   JONES

1125 PM    4E CANNING                SD   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/04/99   HUGHES                         DIME TO NICKLE SIZE HAIL

0135 AM    WATERTOWN                 SD   71 MPH WIND GUST
06/05/99   CODINGTON                      70 FOOT PINES TREES DOWN

0155 AM    CLEAR LAKE                SD   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/05/99   DEUEL                          BIG TREE BLOWN DOWN OVER
                                          ROAD

0230 AM    ORTONVILLE                MN   80 MPH WIND GUST
06/05/99   BIG STONE                      4 GRAIN BINS GONE.
                                          BARRELS THROWN 100 YARDS
                                          WITHOUT TOUCHING THE
                                          GROUND

ECKBERG

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:40 PM MDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before

SDZ019>023-045-048-051-060400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
439 PM CDT (339 PM MDT) SAT JUN 5 1999

...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM CDT/ 10PM MDT...

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 11PM CDT/10PM MDT. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
ARE IN THE WATCH...JONES...LYMANN...BUFFALO...CLARK...CODINGTON...
HAMLIN...GRANT...AND DEUEL.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA
AND WESTERN NEBRASKA AND THEN MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE REGION TONIGHT.
SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ALONG
WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN.

Local storm report, Jun 5, 4:26 PM MDT, 4 hours 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  ABERDEEN SD
526 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1010 PM    3 W MURDO                 SD   TORNADO
06/04/99   JONES                          SHERIFF SPOTTED BRIEF
                                          TOUCHDOWN AT REST AREA
                                          WHICH DAMAGED TRAILOR
                                          PART OF SEMI

END

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 6:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Hamlin	32 min
Jun 5, 7:30 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Codington, Hamlin	50 min
Jun 5, 7:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Jones	48 min
Jun 5, 8:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo	49 min
Jun 5, 8:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand	63 min
Jun 5, 8:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo	47 min
Jun 5, 8:55 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABR	Buffalo	4 hr
Jun 5, 8:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hamlin	47 min
Jun 5, 9:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Codington	49 min
Jun 5, 9:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand	48 min
Jun 6, 12:12 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Roberts	48 min
Jun 6, 1:34 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	61 min
Jun 6, 12:08 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Traverse	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1999 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.