Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1986, 5:55 PM CDT for 4 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 1986, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1986, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bon Homme County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Yankton County, SD
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 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, Jul 29, 12:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 1240 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 1986 AT 1230 PM CDT...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ..AND AN ISOLATED INTENSE STORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN.. WERE OVER PARTS OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON.. OR 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS. THIS STORM WAS WITHIN A 40 MILE WIDE AREA THAT EXTENDED FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF HURON...TO NEAR MADISON. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL.. GUSTY WINDS..LIGHTNING STRIKES..AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. PEA SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. OTHER SHOWERS WERE ALONG THE JAMES RIVER..FROM HURON TO ABERDEEN. ALL MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. KRAUSE/MILLER
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 4:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 440 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 1986 ...ISOLATED INTENSE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... AN ISOLATED INTENSE THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA ABOUT 55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MITCHELL IN THE BONESTEEL AREA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTYY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORMS. PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST GREGORY..SOUTHERN CHARLES-MIX AND BON HOMME SHOULD BE ALERT UNTIL 6 PM CDT..ESPECIALLY IN THE CITIES OF BONESTEEL..PICKSTOWN ..AVON..SPRINGFIELD AND TYNDALL. CAMPERS AND BOATERS ALONG MISSOU:RI RIVER FROM JUST NORTH OF PICKSTOWN TO WEST OF YANKTON SHOULD ALSO BE ALERT FOR THIS INTENSE THUNDERSTORM. BEHREND
Local storm report, Jul 29, 5:39 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
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STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA
538 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 1986
...ALL TIMES CDT ON 28 JULY 1986...
...WOODBURY COUNTY IOWA...
750 PM EXTENSIVE HAIL DAMAGE TO CARS AND WINN-A-BINGO HALL 4 MILES
WEST OF SLOAN IOWA.
750 PM TORNADO PASSED THROUGH SNYDER-S BEND STATE PART...ABOUT 15
MILES SOUTH OF SIOUX CITY. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO TREES.
800 PM MOBILE HOME DESTROYED ONE MILE NORTH OF SLOAN.
...O-BRIEN COUNTY IOWA...
745 PM MARBLE SIZE HAIL 6 MILES WEST OF PRIMGHAR.
800 PM LARGE TREE...31/2 FT IN DIAMETER...DOWN 3 MILES EAST OF
PRIMGHAR.
830 PM FRONT WINDOW OF TV REPAIR SHOP IN SUTHERLAND BLOWN OUT.
830 PM ALL THE FOLLOWING DAMAGE WAS REPORTED IN HARTLEY...68 MILES
NORTHEAST OF SIOUX CITY.
1. 24 BY 24 FT. METAL BLDG. DESTROYED. CONTENTS NOT TOUCHED.
2. SUPERAMERICA MINI MART ROOF BLOWN OFF.
3. MANY LARGE TREES DOWN. ONE MEASURED 21/2 FT DIAMETER.
835 PM THREE SILOS DESTROYED ON FARM 4 MILES SOUTH OF HARTLEY.
835 PM MACHINE SHED DESTROYED ON FARM 31/2 MILES EAST OF HARTLEY.
800 PM WIND ESTIMATED 50 TO 55 MPH IN SANBORN. MANY TREES 2 TO
3 FT. DIAMETER BLOWN DOWN. SOME TREES SPLIT IN TWO.
ONE TREE FELL ON TOWN MEDICAL CENTER.
845 PM ONE MILE SECTION OF CORNBELT POWER LINE...EAST OF HARTLEY
ON THE O-BRIEN - CLAY COUNTY BORDER...BLOWN DOWN.
TIME APPROXIMATED.
...CHEROKEE COUNTY IOWA...
823 PM WIND GUST TO 81 MPH RECORDED AT CHEROKEE AIRPORT.
825 PM WIND ESTIMATED AT 60 TO 65 MPH 5 MILES NORTH OF CHEROKEE.
...UNION COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA...
830 PM BASEBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT JEFFERSON. MANY WINDOWS
BROKEN OUT. HEN EGG SIZE HAIL AT ELK POINT.
REPORTS AND OBSERVATIONS INDICATED THE TORNADO PATH WAS ABOUT 45 MILES
IN LENGTH. TOUCHDOWN WAS NEAR NEWCASTLE...IN NORTHERN DIXON COUNTY
WITH LAST OBSERVED LOCATION ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SLOAN...JUST
INSIDE MONONA COUNTY IOWA. TORNADO OBSERVED FROM 6:30 PM TO 810 PM CDT.
SHERLINSpecial weather statement, Jul 29, 5:40 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 535 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 1986 AT 530 PM CDT...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH WERE INTENSE...CONTINUED DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...50 MILES WEST OF YANKTON AND 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MITCHELL. VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WIND...AND HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. xIN NEBRSAKA...THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTH OF A LINE FROM ONEILL TO SIOUX CITY. ALL OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SPRINGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Yankton | 35 min |
| Jul 28, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 60 min |
| Jul 29, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Douglas | 65 min |
| Jul 29, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hanson, McCook | 68 min |
| Jul 28, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Jackson | 57 min |
| Jul 28, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 57 min |
| Jul 28, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Sioux | 29 min |
| Jul 28, 7:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 38 min |
| Jul 28, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | O'Brien | 61 min |
| Jul 28, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | O'Brien | 62 min |
| Jul 28, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sioux | 58 min |
| Jul 28, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Monona, Woodbury | 27 min |
| Jul 28, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cherokee | 47 min |
| Jul 28, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Monona | 26 min |
| Jul 28, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Monona | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.