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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 7, 1999Corson County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1999, 9:08 PM MDT for Corson 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
Jul 7, 1999, 9:08 PM MDT (03:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1999, 9:40 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Corson County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 237 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 1999-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 22 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 1999-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-361 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2040 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 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.

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 Jul 7, 8:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 8:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
SOUTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
900 PM CDT WED JULY 7 1999

CURRENTLY WATCHING CONVECTION IN WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA.  CURRENT CAPE
VALUES OF OVER 4K J/KG WITH -8 LIS IN PIR AREA PER LAPS MODEL.  00Z
ABR SOUNDING SHOWS WARM MID LEVEL WITH H7 TEMP OF +11 C.  CURRENT
GOES SOUNDINGS ALSO SHOW WARM MID LEVELS WITH SIMILAR H7 TEMPS.  ETA
SHOWS STRONG WAA ESPECIALLY AT MID LEVEL WHICH SHOULD INHBIT
CONVECTION TRYING TO MOVE INTO OUR CWA.  CURRENT PACKAGE DESCRIBES
SITUATION WELL AND NO CHANGES ARE ANTICIPATED.

.ABR...NONE.
KEEFE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 9:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell36 min
Jul 7, 10:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, McPherson31 min
Jul 7, 10:50 PM MDTTornado WarningABRMcPherson35 min
Jul 7, 11:20 PM MDTTornado WarningABREdmunds30 min
Jul 7, 11:22 PM MDTTornado WarningABRBrown48 min
Jul 7, 11:24 PM MDTTornado WarningABRMcPherson36 min
Jul 8, 12:28 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABRMcPherson4 hr
Jul 8, 12:46 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown64 min
Jul 8, 1:43 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDay62 min

Nearby

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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.