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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 13, 2009Corson County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2009, 9:52 AM 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 13, 2009, 9:52 AM MDT (15:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 2009, 10:24 AM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Corson County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:54 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 225 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2009-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1159 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2009-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 115 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
1159 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
941 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.6

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 12:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey, Stanley, Sully55 min
Jul 13, 1:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey, Hughes, Stanley, Sully44 min
Jul 13, 4:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand, Hyde48 min
Jul 13, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand31 min
Jul 13, 5:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRJones56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

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.