Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 1986, 5:57 PM CDT for Moody County, South Dakota. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 1986, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1986, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Moody 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1093 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSD 092257 SVRFSD SDC099-101-125-100000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 557 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...MINNEHAHA...MOODY AND TURNER SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE SIOUX FALLS.. PARKER..FLANDREAU..CROOKS. A COUPLE OF TORNADOES WERE REPORTED 1 MILE WEST OF LYONS AND 5 MILES WEST OF COLTON..BUT WERE REPORTED TO HAVE GONE BACK UP IN THE CLOUDS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM..YOU SHOULD GET TO A REINFORCED SHELTER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH..HAIL 3/4 INCH OR LARGER..DEADLY LIGHTNING..AND HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA. THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT. RYRHOLM
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, Aug 9, 2:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 255 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 245 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL IN TRIPP COUNTY OF SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF WINNER AND OVER THE SOUTHWEST BORDER OF TRIPP COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN TODD COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 3 PM CDT AND WILL NOT BE REISSUED AS THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DIMINISHED IN INTENSITY. NUMEROUS REPORTS HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE PUBLIC OF FUNNEL CLOUDS IN WESTERN TRIPP COUNTY BETWEEN 2 AND 3 PM CDT. HOWEVER NONE OF THE FUNNEL CLOUDS WAS OBSERVED TO TOUCH DOWN..AND NO DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED. THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE FROM NORTHEAST THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND SOME SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EAST SOUTH DAKOTA. UMLAND
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 3:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 340 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN FOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 730 PM CDT... AT 330 PM CDT...A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA..IN A 20 MILE WIDE BAND FROM 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF HURON TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HURON. STRONG WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS IN BEADLE AND CLARK COUNTIES. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA..IN A 50 MILE WIDE AREA FROM THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SOUTH DAKOTA TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF WINNER. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. STOREY
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 4:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 410 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 405 PM CDT INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WERE IN EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF MITCHELL BETWEEN PLANKINTON AND WESSINGTON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO MITCHELL BEFORE 5 PM CDT. PERSONS IN DAVIDSON AND HANSON COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER. HEAVY RAIN..HAIL..AND WINDS GUSTS OVER 45 MPH ARE LIKELY. MOTORISTS ON INTERSTATE 90 AND OTHER HIGHWAYS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SLOW DOWN OR STOP WHEN ENCOUNTER THE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHILL WILL LIMIT VISIBILITY. TORNADO WATCH 482 CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EAST SOUTH DAKOTA. UMLAND
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 4:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 440 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN FOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 730 PM CDT... AT 425 PM CDT...A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST OF HURON/SISSETON LINE. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ALONG THE SANBORN/DAVIDSON LINE..25 MILES NORTH OF MITCHELL. STRONG WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. MILLER/STOREY
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 5:20 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 510 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 730 PM CDT... WIDELY SCATTERED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE IN A LINE FROM LAKE ANDES..75 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF HURON TO EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. AT 510 PM CDT THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LAKE ANDES..OR 75 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF HURON. THIS LINE CONTAINED NEARLY SOLID SHOWERS AND OTHER THUNDERSTORMS. THE INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL THIS EVENING AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH OVER SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. AT 450 PM CDT WINDS OF 50 TO 60 MPH WERE REPORTED TWO MILES NORTH OF MITCHELL. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AND AT ITS PRESENT SPEED WILL ENTER SIOUX FALLS BY 630 PM CDT. PERSONS OUTDOORS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS AND THEIR POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING IN THE SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL PART OF AOUTH DAKOTA AS WELL AS ADJOINING PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEING CAUSED BY A FAST MOVING COLDV FRONT WHICH EXTENDED FROM NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA TO SOUTHERN WYOMING LATE SATURDAY EVENING. WEILAND
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 5:34 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 540 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN FOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 730 PM CDT... AT 525 PM CDT...A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF EASTERN AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST OF WATERTOWN/MITCHELL/PICKSTOWN LINE. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER WESTERN mBROOKINGS COUNTY NEAR ARLINGTON..20 MILES WEST OF BROOKINGS. STRONG WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. MILLER/STOREY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Todd | 58 min |
| Aug 9, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Hutchinson | 63 min |
| Aug 9, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Douglas | 63 min |
| Aug 9, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha, Turner | 63 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.