Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1986, 10:05 PM CDT for Lake County, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 1986, 10:05 PM CDT (03:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1986, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lake County, SD, Minnehaha 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 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 3044 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1221 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 507 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 5.1
- Supercell composite
- 42.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSD 170309 COR SVRFSD SDC079-099-125-MNC081-170400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1005 PM CDT SAT AUG 16 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...LAKE...MINNEHAHA AND NORTHERN TURNER SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...NORTHERN LINCOLN SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE SIOUX FALLS.. MADISON..HUMBOLDT..PARKER..CANTON..MARION. AT 950 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS TO 20 MILES WEST OF SIOUX FALLS. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. AT 950 PM CDT 70 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED AT SALEM SOUTH DAKOTA. 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. ANDERSON
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 16, 5:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 540 PM CDT SAT AUG 16 1986 ...THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... AT 540 PM CDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS BEEN DEVELOPING RAPIDLY JUST NORTH OF TYLER IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA..OR ABOUT 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIOUX FALLS..SOUTH DAKOTA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE QUITE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN..SOME HAIL..GUSTY WINDS..AND SHARP LIGHTNING AS IT MOVES EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP FROM EAST TO WEST ALONG AND NEAR A SLOW MOVING FRONT EXTENDING FROM SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA THROUGH SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE. RYRHOLM
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 6:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 645 PM CDT SAT AUG 16 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... AT 630 PM CDT...AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED OVER CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA..WEST OF A LINE FROM SIOUX FALLS TO ABERDEEN AND EAST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR DEVELOPING SEVERE WEATHER..AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS..AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. STOREY
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 7:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 745 PM CDT SAT AUG 16 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... AT 730 PM CDT...AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR PIERRE TO COLUMBIA..15 MILES NORTH OF ABERDEEN. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR DEVELOPING SEVERE WEATHER..AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS..AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN_ HOUR. MILLER/STOREY
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 8:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 840 PM CDT SAT AUG 16 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 830 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. THE AREA EXTENDED FROM ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF MITCHELL SOUTH DAKOTA TO NEAR BROOKINGS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MPH. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. HOWEVER..PEOPLE IN SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPING. ANDERSON
Local storm report, Aug 16, 9:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 900PAM CDT SAT AUG 16 1986 TIME EVENT AND LOCATION 850 PM CDT 51 MPH WIND GUST AT CHAMBERLAIN SD IN BRULE COUNTY. KAPELA
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 9:49 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 948 PM CDT SAT AUG 16 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 11PM CDT TONIGHT... AT 945 PM... THERE WERE NUMEROUS INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF MITCHELL NEAR PLANKINTON AND 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS NEAR WINFRED. HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE IN THESE STORMS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 12 MILES AN HOUR. BE ALERT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TAKE IMMEDIATE COVER. PRESTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Aurora, Brule | 35 min |
| Aug 16, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hanson, McCook | 59 min |
| Aug 16, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora, Brule | 59 min |
| Aug 16, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Davison | 59 min |
| Aug 16, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Turner | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Davison, Douglas, Hutchinson | 58 min |
| Aug 16, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hanson | 58 min |
| Aug 16, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Lincoln, Turner | 68 min |
| Aug 16, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Yankton | 68 min |
| Aug 16, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 54 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.